I've had the same problem. I have over 4G of resources and didn't want to break them up into individual course files, so I created one folder RESOURSES outside the moodle root and outside the moodledata, after which I created a symbolic link to the course folders. I have been doing this manually, but has also start to write a simple script that will allow this process to take place automatically.
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