I already have a Seagate FreeAgent Go 320GB Drive.
I am willing to buy a Seagate Freeagent Dockstar.
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My requirements:**
I need to use the above two for torrent downloads. Plus, I need to be able to use the Drive as a standalone Portable HDD as well. That’s all. Nothing more.
My Problem:
I don’t know how to go about it. I studied this thread on TE completely and at the end, I am even more confused than I was before reading it.
After that you can setup Transmission for downloading torrents and Samba for windows file sharing (All these are mostly done by giving the ‘apt-get install xxx’ command and few changes in the config ) Also use Webmin for managing it easily through a web interfacce.
-Install and configure other packages (transmission for torrent,screen for console etc)
-use putty client to connect from your desktop
-make necessary users/permissions for transmission or it will have authorization issues
I have setup FireFTP for downloading to my desktop, which is more faster than Samba.
-Jijo
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I am using Debian dockstar for 24/7 torrent downloading. I have 320GB external USB hard disk connected, it’s two partitions, one for root and another for torrent using ext4, it all working fine without any errors.
partition 1 - / - 10GB
partition 2 - /sg320 - 305GB
partition 3 - /swap - 5GB
When i start downloading, the size of the root file system gets increasing even it’s not downloading anything to rootfs. When i checked with find command, it shows /proc/5/root/sg320 having maximum size, where sg320 is the second partition where torrent download saves. After downloading some extent rootfs comes to 100% (du -h) and all the torrent gets paused by transmission says no space left on device.
Is anyone gone through same issues, any comments ?
