diff --git a/hosts/by-name/servo/services/transmission/torrent-done b/hosts/by-name/servo/services/transmission/torrent-done
index 08b3e5a0..ab648bad 100755
--- a/hosts/by-name/servo/services/transmission/torrent-done
+++ b/hosts/by-name/servo/services/transmission/torrent-done
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ destructive find "$MEDIA_DIR/" -type f \(\
   -o -iname 'YTS*.com.txt' \
   \) -exec rm {} \;
 
-if ! [ -b "${TR_NO_HARDLINK}" ]; then
+if ! [ -n "${TR_NO_HARDLINK}" ]; then
   # dedupe the whole media library.
   # yeah, a bit excessive: move this to a cron job if that's problematic
   #   or make it run with only 1/N probability, etc.