seeding utorrent from another volume

[yogi]

hi clinton,

i store my files on other volumes on my 608.
when i add a torrent file it seems that utorrent gives no option for other paths,
it is always the default dir under volume1/download/
the popup only opts another subdir, but not another volume or full path different.

sooo, is there any way i could add torrents to seed which are on my volumes 2 - 8 ?
otherwise i need to copy them all again under /download/ which is really bs to me ...

thx
yogi

[clinton.hall]

Hi yogi,

I'm not sure where the limitation is introduced. if this is an issue with utserver, or something in the way I packaged it...

Honestly, I think the easiest way would be a symlink of your other seed locations into /volume1/download/utorrent

/volume1/download/utorrent/vol3 --> /volume3/download
/volume1/download/utorrent/vol8 --> /volume8/download
etc.

[yogi]

ok, but what exactly should i do now to create symlinks?
i am 100% linux noob.
i would like to have 7 of those for the other 7 hdd

thx

[clinton.hall]

Ok... You may need to ssh as root if admin doesn't work for this... But for these two links

/volume1/download/utorrent/vol3 --> /volume3/download
/volume1/download/utorrent/vol8 --> /volume8/download

You would use these commands

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ln -s /volume3/download /volume1/download/utorrent/vol3
ln -s /volume8/download /volume1/download/utorrent/vol8

you can do this for the remaining 5 volumes... Just changing the numbers.

[yogi]

ok i start with volume7, but there is no /download dir on that drive with subdirs, all files are stored in different dirs directly on volume7, so i changed your command line to:
ln -s /volume7 /volume1/download/utorrent/vol7

and it tells me 'no such file or directory'

[clinton.hall]

Sorry.. Directories are case sensitive.... I gave you wrong info above...

Try

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ln -s /volume7 /volume1/Download/utorrent/vol7

Check the path to be sure it is correct and exists.

[yogi]

ok, vol7 file was created inside /utorrent
so far, so good ...

now, when i add a torrent do i have to specify that as the sub-path option like 'vol7' or '/vol7' or '/vol7/' ?
none of them worked and utorrent seems to do nothing with it, also doesn't add the torrent file inside the /torrents dir

i also noticed that from my win7 notebook using win explorer clicking that /vol7 dir which i now see under /utorrent tells me i have no rights,
however ADM file explorer shows me the normal permissions RW for all ...



btw i guess i can use any name for vol7 symlink or does it has to be vol7 and nothing else?

[clinton.hall]

can use any name...

the issue here is that even if /volume1/Download/utorrent/vol7 has the correct permissions, /volume7 also needs to have adequate permissions.

you can try

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chown -R admin /volume1/Download/utorrent/vol7
chown -R admin /volume7 

when adding specify the sub path as vol7 (vol7/ should also work, but no leading "/")

[yogi]

well, line 1 worked but this came out of line 2:

admin@ASUSTOR:~ $ chown -R admin /volume7
chown: /volume7/lost+found: Permission denied
chown: /volume7/aquota.user: Operation not permitted
chown: /volume7/OYHD HOME: Operation not permitted
chown: /volume7/OYHD HOME: Operation not permitted
chown: /volume7/.@CNID/OYHD HOME: Operation not permitted
chown: /volume7/.@CNID/OYHD HOME: Operation not permitted
chown: /volume7/.@CNID: Operation not permitted
chown: /volume7/.@CNID: Operation not permitted
chown: /volume7: Operation not permitted
chown: /volume7: Operation not permitted

i also checked >access control>shared folders and all users are set to RW
btw i gave volume7 the name OYHD HOME as u see above.

so i logged in as root and this came out of it:

root@ASUSTOR:/volume1/.@root # chown -R admin /volume7
chown: /volume7/aquota.user: Operation not permitted

after all, nothing changed, can't add torrents where data is on vol7 and can't access the dir shown under win7 network.

[clinton.hall]

It looks like each volume has a stack of folders that can only have root ownership... But sub directories should be ok..

I wonder if as root you can

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chown -R admin /volume7/OYHD\ HOME

Then try linking vol7 directly to this...

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rm /volume1/Download/utorrent/vol7
ln -sf /volume7/OYHD\ HOME /volume1/Download/utorrent/vol7
chown -R admin /volume1/Download/utorrent/vol7