Hello all,

I have an RPi running currently as a torrent server, using a 250GB external USB drive as storage. Originally I set it up with the drive formatted as NTFS as per the tutorial I was following (I think the reason was so that you could connect the drive directly to a PC/laptop and access the files even if the RPi wasn't available). Between one thing (mount.ntfs eats up the CPU when downloading) and another (LAN transfer speed is slow, which I've seen attributed to the overhead of NTFS on Linux), I think I want to copy the files to another storage medium (NAS), reformat the drive as something else, perhaps ext4, and then copy the files back.

What I'm worried about is whether deluged will still 'see' the same files and continue seeding them as before. If I shut down deluge and its web client, copy the files, unmount the disk, format it, remount it, and copy them back before restarting deluge... it shouldn't 'see' anything changed, should it?

TIA,

Monte

The filesystem in use is transparent to applications like Deluge, they don't care at all. Your plan is exactly like I would do it and I don't see any problems with it. The only problem that could arise would be that of the permissions on the new filesystem. If you run Deluge under its own user you will have to chown the directories to Deluge's user after copying them back.

if it is USB 2
then THAT very slow transfer rate will be the problem
and not the NTFS format

if there are not going to be any MS Windows OS's reading the drive from the usb cable
then it dose not need to be in a Microsoft proprietary format .
Formatting to ext4 would be fine

Deluged dose not care about the drive format
only the file system location for the read from and save to folders