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Media Directory Structure

This is a simple diagram of what my media directory currently looks like, mostly for reference because I CRS.

/mnt/media/
├── dump                 ← Container backups
├── templates            ← Container template storage
├── movies               ← Final destination (Radarr)
├── music                ← Final destination (Lidarr)
├── tv                   ← Final destination (Sonarr)
├── books                ← Final destination (Readarr)
├── qbit/
│   ├── downloads/
│   │   ├── books        ← Readarr category via qBittorrent
│   │   ├── movies       ← Radarr category via qBittorrent
│   │   ├── music        ← Lidarr category via qBittorrent
│   │   ├── software     ← Optional torrents
│   │   └── tv           ← Sonarr category via qBittorrent
│   └── tmp              ← Temporary files
├── nzb/
│   ├── books            ← Readarr category via NZBGet
│   ├── movies           ← Radarr category via NZBGet
│   ├── music            ← Lidarr category via NZBGet
│   ├── queue            ← Active downloads (MainDir/queue)
│   ├── scripts          ← Post-processing scripts
│   ├── software         ← Optional NZB category
│   ├── tmp              ← Temp downloads
│   └── tv               ← Sonarr category via NZBGet

I found that this provided sufficient separation of content and working directories for the *arrs so they did not complain. Set yours up how you want and do what works for you!