libtorrent/rtorrent

**deiby** · 03-11-2012, 06:27 PM

i honestly have no idea where to ask this so i'm just going to go ahead and ask here. ok, so i have been using rtorrent for the last few days and it takes some getting used to, but i think i'm going to make it my permanent linux client. now here's my question:

say you have a torrent with 2 files. (this is an oversimplification but you'll see what i'm trying to say). one file is like 100 kb and the other is 1 gb. i just want to download the 100 kb file so in the file list i set priority "off" on the 1 gb file. problem is, because the piece size is larger than 100 kb, it overlaps onto the 1 gb file and rtorrent ends up creating a 1gb dummy file which takes up unnecessary space on my hd. what should i do? it seemed that all other clients i have used in the past had a way around this so it wouldn't create an unnecessary space-wasting file and i would have thought rtorrent would be no different but that is not the case. is there any way around this?

**stan** · 03-11-2012, 07:05 PM

Although it would be 1 gb if fully downloaded it would only be using few mb in practice.

**deiby** · 03-11-2012, 07:15 PM

hmm... ok, but it's saying that it's also 1 gb in my file browser.

**stan** · 03-11-2012, 08:07 PM

Rtorrent does not usually preallocate the space

**deiby** · 03-11-2012, 09:21 PM

ok... so do you know how i would get it to not create the 1gb file in the example?

**deiby** · 03-16-2012, 02:49 PM

ok, so i'm having a few issues with rtorrent. i've been to the official site at http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no but they don't really have a forum and i can't seem to find one searching on google. does anyone know of a good forum where i can get help with this stuff? appreciate anyone who can point me in the right direction!