move-plots

Tiny CLI Tool to move chia plots from a source directory to a target directory with enough space left. The tool will work fine on all unix based systems (unix, linux, macos)

Getting started

Pre-Built Binaries

Pre-built binaries can be found on the release page. They are available for the following platforms:

• darwin-amd64 (64 Bit MacOS)
• linux-amd64 (64 Bit Linux)
• linux-arm64 (64Bit Linux for ARM)

Building from Source

Pre-requisites

• Linux, MacOS or other Unix based System
• git installed
• go 1.16 installed

Installation

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/St3ffn/move-plots.git
cd move-plots

Build the binary

go build

Now you are ready to go.

Usage

# move all *.plot files from /path/source to a target directory with enough disk space left   
> move-plots /path/source /path/target1 /path/target2 /path/target3 

found 2 plots in /path/source
moved /path/source/marcus.plot to /path/target2/marcus.plot
moved /path/source/steffen.plot to /path/target2/steffen.plot

To specify the amount of plots to reserve use --reserve or -r

# move all *.plot files from /path/source to a target directory with enough disk space left   
# reserve space for 2 chia plots on each disk
> move-plots -r 2 /path/source /path/target1 /path/target2 /path/target3

...

To get more details use the verbose mode via --verbose or -v

# move all *.plot files from /path/source to a target directory with enough disk space left   
# reserve space for 2 chia plots on each disk
# verbose mode
> move-plots -V -r 2 /path/source /path/target1 /path/target2 /path/target3

INFO: 2021/06/04 15:47:19 found 2 plots in /path/source
INFO: 2021/06/04 15:47:19 try to move /path/source/marcus.plot
INFO: 2021/06/04 15:47:19 found /path/target2 with available capacity for 1 plots
INFO: 2021/06/04 15:47:19 try to move /path/source/marcus.plot to /path/target2/marcus.plot
INFO: 2021/06/04 15:47:19 moved /path/source/marcus.plot to /path/target2/marcus.plot
INFO: 2021/06/04 15:47:19 try to move /path/source/steffen.plot
INFO: 2021/06/04 15:47:19 found /path/target3 with available capacity for 5 plots
INFO: 2021/06/04 15:47:19 try to move /path/source/steffen.plot to /path/target3/steffen.plot
INFO: 2021/06/04 15:47:19 moved /path/source/steffen.plot to /path/target3/steffen.plot

To get the current version use --version or -V

> move-plots -V

move-plots version x.x.x

Call with --help or -h to see the help page

> ./move-plots -h
NAME:
   move-plots - move chia plots from source directory to a target directory with enough space left

USAGE:
   move-plots [-r RESERVE] [-v]  SOURCE_DIRECTORY TARGET_DIRECTORY ...
   move-plots -r 1 -v /source /plots/a /plots/b /plots/c

VERSION:
   0.1.0

DESCRIPTION:
   Tool will move each plot from source directory to a target directory with enough space left

GLOBAL OPTIONS:
   --reserve RESERVE, -r RESERVE  RESERVE. the amount of plots to reserve. (default: 0)
   --verbose, -v                  enable verbose mode. (default: false)
   --help, -h                     show help (default: false)
   --version, -V                  print version (default: false)

COPYRIGHT:
   GNU GPLv3

Integration

The script can easily be integrated with cron. Simply open the users crontab via crontab -e and add the following line.

# run move-plots in verbose mode every 5 minutes and enforce that only one process is running (exclude grep and tail)
# all stdout and stderr will be redirected to /tmp/move-plots.log
*/5 * * * * [ $(ps aux | grep move-plots| grep -v grep | grep -v tail | wc -l) -eq 0 ] && /PATH/TO/move-plots -v /plots/source /target/one /target/another >>/tmp/move-plots.log 2>&1

Limitations and Restrictions

• by default the capacity of one plot is reserved for each target disk (can be disabled via -r 0)
• plots are moved one after another (sequentially)
• before a single plot gets moved each target disk is evaluated for plot capacity
• the actual move operation is performed by the mv command (don't wanted to reinvent the wheel)
• in case there is no disk space left for further plots, the script will error ...no disk space left
• windows is not supported and there is also no plan to support it

Kind gestures

If you like the tool, and you are open for a kind gesture. Thanks in advance.

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