How to create a torrent via the command line

• First of all, you should start with How to connect via ssh to your account
• After you connect to your slot via SSH, navigate to the directory which includes the folder that you want to create a torrent from, ex. cd torrents/downloads/
• Then you use the mktorrent command to create the torrent, as follows:\

mktorrent -v -a 'http://your_ announce_ url' -p DIRECTORY_ FOR_TORRENT

-v is for verbose -p is for private, as in not DTH or PeerExchange -a is for tracker url follows

for example:

mktorrent -a 'http://tracker.to/announce' -p Mozart_ Music_Collection

After mktorrent finishes, the torrent file will be saved on the same folder taking the name of the directory it was created for.

The command needs to be all in one line, and quotes must be used around the folder name if it contains spaces.

If you want to specify piece size for torrent, you can use -l switch (small L) it's in potency of 2 so:

2^19 = 524 288 = 512 KiB for filesizes between 512 MiB - 1024 MiB
2^20 = 1 048 576 = 1024 KiB for filesizes between 1 GiB - 2 GiB
2^21 = 2 097 152 = 2048 KiB for filesizes between 2 GiB - 4 GiB
2^22 = 4 194 304 = 4096 KiB for filesizes between 4 GiB - 8 GiB
2^23 = 8 388 608 = 8192 KiB for filesizes between 8 GiB - 16 GiB
2^24 = 16 777 216 = 16384 KiB for filesizes between 16 GiB - 512 GiB This is the max you should ever have to use.
2^25 = 33 554 432 = 32768 KiB (note that utorrent versions before 3.x CANNOT load torrents with this or higher piece-size)

Usage:

mktorrent -v -p -l 19 -a http://exampletracker.com/announce folder_name