File Rearranger

Hello,

I have a lot of files spread across many hard drives and unfortunately, they are not very well organized at all. Since I abhor unorganized file trees, I have decided to clean it up and organize it. This is where I run into my problem. Most of my disks are about 80%-ish filled with data and I don't want to have to move files a little bit at a time (ex. move 100GB from disk1 to disk2, move 100GB of other stuff from disk2 to disk1, repeat). I have planned out where I want everything and it will all fit, the problem is not enough temporary storage. I was wondering if anyone here has heard of a program that, basically, you tell it where you want stuff and works out a sequence of file transfers based off free space and such, then transfers the files. This seems like such a useful program that somebody would have thought of this before me.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Carey

PS: For people recommending that I just buy some more hard drives, I've thought of that. I have around 20TB of data (I run a public file server for people in my apt) and I don't want to have to buy a ton of hard drives just to move some stuff around.

Ok thanks, I think what I'm going to do is attempt to code a small CLI program that will take in a config file with what files should be moved where and spit out a batch script with the necessary operations to move the files around. If anyone wants to help out with this, give me a shout :)

@whs: I initially tried this but since libraries don't map to a certain directory, It makes it impossible for FTP and other programs. Also, I'm a bit too anal about organization to make that a feasible option