I have a SMB share on my raspberry pi 4B. I would have liked to use NFS but it is weird with permissions, at least on OpenBSD when I tried it. I think you had to use LDAP, maybe on Linux it's easier but still SMB is better for me because there's support for it in Android apps like MiXplorer. It is a bit messy but here's what directory layout i got rn
Yeah it's a valid option and def doesn't clutter. rutracker+foobar was my Spotify for more than a decade.
But it's comfy to never have to worry about tags, album art and the quality of the release.
I somewhat subscribe to hydrus' philosophy of abandoning file structure in favor of a tagging system like boorus. Figuring out how to organize media in folders is annoying when you start to accumulate many files. I have a couple issues with it however.
If you ever want to go back to not using it, You either keep a backup of all the files you imported, or you add metadata to all the files including their original filename, which is annoying to reverse. Another problem is I have no clue how to have it act as a file picker when I go to upload files somewhere. It's not really designed to manage "unfinished work" either so it could never be a full replacement for media storage.
If I could find some software that solves these issues I'd be all over it.
I wouldn't want any tags that aren't part of the filesystem. They should be in extended attributes.
Or even better, use folders and hardlinks.
Every folder reptesents a tag and if a file has multiple tags it is hardlinked into multiple folders. I think thats the purpose of hardlinks anyway.
We just need a GUI that makes this feasible. I think i could actually make a contextmenu in Dolphin that does that...
Use LVM. Or compress the data in parts of 500GB. Or organize the data in a way each disk has 500GB of data. e.g one disk for media, one for documents, etc.
Use LVM. Or compress the data in parts of 500GB. Or organize the data in a way each disk has 500GB of data. e.g one disk for media, one for documents, etc.
>Or organize the data in a way each disk has 500GB of data. e.g one disk for media, one for documents, etc.
This is basically what I've been doing for the last decade+. I've always had a RAID1 array in my desktop. Every few years I'll buy a new pair of drives at least twice as big as the old ones, then keep the old ones, each one a backup of half of what's on the new drives.
just checked it out >can disable internal archive handling
good start >doesn't have its own search
won't do, seems very nice otherwise, I just don't want to rely on explorer that much, liked all the split modes, icon view is nice
I let automated programs sort my media
Books are done by author right now if fiction and subject if non-fiction with biographies its own section
But my documents...yeah those are a mess I can't be fucking bothered to fix. I mean the most important ones are separated out but everything else isn't.
Photos aren't sorted at all and probably never will be
I don't really organize much myself, I don't hoard data. I have a secondary drive where I store some of the bigger shit and it's just Pictures, Documents, Music, Downloads, Games, whatever the fuck, one /Misc/ folder for stuff that doesn't fit in any category
Once I used Hydrus for collecting pictures but I now have work to do and don't have time to tag shit
I put there anything that is active / ongoing and it's important, when things stop being relevant it gets moved to work/Archive and personal/Archive
Usually while working I tend to to place all the intermediate files on the desktop (lots of space, two monitors), easy to manipulate
Every two or three days I move anything important to personal or work folder, before launching a script that cleans the desktop and moves all the rest of the junk to a big archive folder, in timestamped subfolders. If I need some junk back it's easy to find it.
I have a SMB share on my raspberry pi 4B. I would have liked to use NFS but it is weird with permissions, at least on OpenBSD when I tried it. I think you had to use LDAP, maybe on Linux it's easier but still SMB is better for me because there's support for it in Android apps like MiXplorer. It is a bit messy but here's what directory layout i got rn
/mnt/ssd/media
/mnt/ssd/media/imgb
/mnt/ssd/media/cat
/mnt/ssd/media/img
/mnt/ssd/media/movies
/mnt/ssd/media/rtorrent
/mnt/ssd/software
/mnt/ssd/software/projects
/mnt/ssd/software/src
/mnt/ssd/software/bin
/mnt/ssd/software/data
/mnt/ssd/systems
/mnt/ssd/systems/ice
/mnt/ssd/systems/pi-rpios
/mnt/ssd/systems/pi-openbsd
/mnt/ssd/systems/m1-macos
/mnt/ssd/systems/oracle-ice
/mnt/ssd/documents
/mnt/ssd/documents/education
/mnt/ssd/documents/legal
/mnt/ssd/documents/personal
/mnt/ssd/documents/health
/mnt/ssd/documents/purchases
/mnt/ssd/documents/family
/mnt/ssd/documents/work
/mnt/ssd/vms
/mnt/ssd/vms/qemu
/mnt/ssd/vms/aavmf
/mnt/ssd/literature
/mnt/ssd/literature/os
/mnt/ssd/literature/electricity
/mnt/ssd/literature/java
/mnt/ssd/literature/c
/mnt/ssd/literature/chemistry
/mnt/ssd/literature/assembly
/mnt/ssd/literature/hw
/mnt/ssd/literature/networking
/mnt/ssd/literature/ada
/mnt/ssd/tmp
>declutter
The best way to declutter is the same as irl, just don't bring in the clutter in the first place.
Music and other media is streamed. Spotify is good and if you don't know how to stream movies for free it's your problem.
Downloaded books go straight into the Kindle.
The only things you store are documents (the kinds listed) and personal photos library. These are also the only things you back up.
I live with a 250 GB laptop and only 100 GB is used.
music just goes straight into the music folder to be used by foobar, it doesn't clutter
Yeah it's a valid option and def doesn't clutter. rutracker+foobar was my Spotify for more than a decade.
But it's comfy to never have to worry about tags, album art and the quality of the release.
I somewhat subscribe to hydrus' philosophy of abandoning file structure in favor of a tagging system like boorus. Figuring out how to organize media in folders is annoying when you start to accumulate many files. I have a couple issues with it however.
If you ever want to go back to not using it, You either keep a backup of all the files you imported, or you add metadata to all the files including their original filename, which is annoying to reverse. Another problem is I have no clue how to have it act as a file picker when I go to upload files somewhere. It's not really designed to manage "unfinished work" either so it could never be a full replacement for media storage.
If I could find some software that solves these issues I'd be all over it.
I wouldn't want any tags that aren't part of the filesystem. They should be in extended attributes.
Or even better, use folders and hardlinks.
Every folder reptesents a tag and if a file has multiple tags it is hardlinked into multiple folders. I think thats the purpose of hardlinks anyway.
We just need a GUI that makes this feasible. I think i could actually make a contextmenu in Dolphin that does that...
we tmsu in pcmanfm so its easy to tag and search then you drag n drop here
Let me just hijack this thread and ask; how do you backup 6TB of data onto individual 500GB hard drives? I have an endless supply of free 500GB HDDs
Use LVM. Or compress the data in parts of 500GB. Or organize the data in a way each disk has 500GB of data. e.g one disk for media, one for documents, etc.
>Or organize the data in a way each disk has 500GB of data. e.g one disk for media, one for documents, etc.
This is basically what I've been doing for the last decade+. I've always had a RAID1 array in my desktop. Every few years I'll buy a new pair of drives at least twice as big as the old ones, then keep the old ones, each one a backup of half of what's on the new drives.
Like this
Something like these for me, but I use total commander because explorer is webview now and other FMs suck for one reason or another
ps I also winrar most stuff that compresses excessively
>total commander
qdir - http://www.q-dir.com/
just checked it out
>can disable internal archive handling
good start
>doesn't have its own search
won't do, seems very nice otherwise, I just don't want to rely on explorer that much, liked all the split modes, icon view is nice
he does a windows search replacement, so does nirsoft.
But why wouldn't you just use everything?
using an external one seems like a good option, I always just used whatever came with the file manager, don't care for indexing though
A logical folder tree should come naturally.
cull and delete as soon as you download something.
/mnt/stuff
/mnt/misc
>hey guise, give me sum search terms to plug into shodan....
If you don't have one folder per file you're doing it all wrong.
C:UsersUserDesktopSort laterOldSort later
I don't own digital files and I am happy. Take the print everything you really need pill.
I just store everything on my desktop
I let automated programs sort my media
Books are done by author right now if fiction and subject if non-fiction with biographies its own section
But my documents...yeah those are a mess I can't be fucking bothered to fix. I mean the most important ones are separated out but everything else isn't.
Photos aren't sorted at all and probably never will be
I don't really organize much myself, I don't hoard data. I have a secondary drive where I store some of the bigger shit and it's just Pictures, Documents, Music, Downloads, Games, whatever the fuck, one /Misc/ folder for stuff that doesn't fit in any category
Once I used Hydrus for collecting pictures but I now have work to do and don't have time to tag shit
I'm making my own tagging software. Omnitagger. Tags any piece of data described by its hash like a content addressable file system.
Yes, I have psychological problems I cannot stop downloading and folders do not work anymore
nothing too fancy
two folders, work and personal
I put there anything that is active / ongoing and it's important, when things stop being relevant it gets moved to work/Archive and personal/Archive
Usually while working I tend to to place all the intermediate files on the desktop (lots of space, two monitors), easy to manipulate
Every two or three days I move anything important to personal or work folder, before launching a script that cleans the desktop and moves all the rest of the junk to a big archive folder, in timestamped subfolders. If I need some junk back it's easy to find it.