I’m just getting started on my first setup. I’ve got radarr, sonarr, prowlarr, jellyfin, etc running in docker and reading/writing their configs to a 4TB external drive.

I followed a guide to ensure that hardlinks would be used to save disk space.

But what happens when the current drive fills up? What is the process to scale and add more storage?

My current thought process is:

  1. Mount a new drive
  2. Recreate the data folder structure on the new drive
  3. Add the path to the new drive to the jellyfin container
  4. Update existing collections to look at the new location too
  5. Switch (not add) the volume for the *arrs data folder to the new drive

Would that work? It would mean the *arrs no longer have access to the actual downloaded files. But does that matter?

Is there an easier, better way? Some way to abstract away the fact that there will eventually be multiple drives? So I could just add on a new drive and have the setup recognize there is more space for storage without messing with volumes or app configs?

  • MentalEdgeEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    What’s the problem?

    …the arrs can handle more than one storage folder/drive just fine? You don’t need to use hardlinks unless you want to continue to seed forever.

    If you don’t use hardlinks in the arrs, they wont duplicate the files, they will move them out of the download folder into the library folder. All the hardlink option does is allow you to continue to seed even after the media has been downloaded.

    The data folder is separate, it only contains library details and metadata, no media files. It should never get big enough to fill up a drive.

    My setup downloads media to a temp folder on an SSD, then moves the files onto one of my six drives depending on where I told it to put a series/movie when I added it.