How to get content in /downloads hardlinked in /media?

[peschethefirst]

Sonarr version (exact version): 2.0.0.5344
Mono version (if Sonarr is not running on Windows):5.20.1.34
OS: Docker container in linux (linuxserver/sonarr)
Debug logs:
Description of issue:
I have a disk with these paths:

• /mnt/external/downloads (has files)
• /mnt/external/media (empty)

I am creating a docker container with this volume:

volumes: - /mnt/external:/storage

I want Sonarr to rename files and make them available in /storage/media (in the container) which is /mnt/external/media in the host.

My files have inode > 1, suggesting that hardlinks are created. But I can’t find any paths to these files other than through /downloads.

What am I doing wrong?

[rhom]

where is it failing? debug logs would help with that, a lot.

what root folder is set in sonarr? (ie where did you tell sonarr to move the downloads to). presumably /storage/media

did you use the same mapping in your download client? (presuming its also in docker on that same host)

does your download client end up putting completed files into /mnt/external/downloads (or a subfolder underneath)?

does the user sonarr is running as have full permissions to /mnt/external and all subfolders?

really need the logs files to work out whats actually happening though.

[peschethefirst]

Thanks for your help. This is my big question: how do I set the root folder in sonarr? Is that what happens when I import a series and change its path? Fundamentally, I don’t understand how sonarr decides to use my …/media path.

What do you mean by “the same mapping in your download client”? The download client saves files in /mnt/external/downloads, it doesn’t know about /mnt/external/media. But /mnt/external is mounted as the root of the volume.

There could be a permissions issue. I think I should understand how it’s supposed to work first, I didn’t see anything in the logs that was obvious.

[peschethefirst]

Update: everything is working.

I completely missed the difference between “Importing” files that were already in /media and organized correctly, and manually importing to a series configured with a path in /media. Once I found the manual import, I was able to add those files to a series and they were hardlinked correctly. Thanks for taking the time to help out!