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Hello! I'm unexpectedly got low on free space on my HDD I use for seeding so I wanna dudup that HDD using Windows (Server) built-in deduplication feature because for the data I'm seeding there it will be extremely effective. I know some filesystem or file management related utilities become quite unhappy and even can corrupt filesystem sometimes when you try to use them on deduplicated volumes so just in case, to make sure that my data will safe, I wanna ask you is using qBittorrent on deduplicated volumes safe for the data on them?

Tirael2010 wrote: Mon Oct 14, 2024 11:03 am...

I never used it before but it looks great for your usage? I checked the pages about it but I don't see any downside to it. I mean worst case, you have to re-download some stuff. It's all on torrent, sot much risk I guess.

But do back up everything else.

Just successfully deduped the volume (That was surprisingly way longer than I expected on HDD, by the way). Run qBittorrent and everything at the first glance seems to be a normal, to be completely sure that everything is fine, I started force recheck for all torrents I seeding. It will take some time, but it will be better than sorry later, if something got corrupted.

Rechecked al seeding torrents. No problems found. Looks like using qBittorrent on deduped drives, at least for basic Torrent client functionality, is actually okay! I'm suppose after next scheduled optimization in should work as well.