I'm running a little low on hard drive space. I put torrents on their own mount point. Linux user here. Anyway, currently have about 32TBs of space available but it is at about 90%. Right now, I can't budget a larger drive to replace a smaller one with. So, I need to make some room. There's three drives using LVM currently. I'd like to remove some torrents based on them having plenty of other seeders. In the columns I have "seeds" enabled. I see a number and then another number in parentheses. I suspect the number in parentheses is the number of other copies available. The higher the number, the more copies there is available from other people. So, if I have a torrent that shows 300 or more in parentheses, then there is a lot of other copies available. If I delete/remove mine, people who want that torrent have plenty of others to get it from. Am I correct in that thinking? Does that mean something else completely?
Is there another way to only remove torrents that are going to be easily available from others if I remove mine here? I may store these on a backup drive and re-add them later.
My intention was to seed any torrent I get, unless it turned out to be a bad one or something, from then on. Sort of my way of helping others, hopefully ones who helped me as well. Some of my torrents are hard to find and took a while to get. I like some that happen to be, shall we say, old products.
To anyone reading this that may have helped me get a torrent, thanks. If I happened to help share one with you, you're welcome.
