Title: bitcoin-qt data directory is only a few gigabytes
Post by: Gimberg on February 07, 2018, 08:08:42 PM
Hi, I'm running a qt node and I recently took it apart and noticed that the qt data folder was only 4-5 gigabytes and I previously remember that I used to have the whole blockchain, which is no above ~150GB.
I started the node and it had some blocks that it needed to download but other than than it seems 100% normal, so my question is why is it only 5GB? I should have the whole blockchain or do I but it's compressed?
Thanks in advance for any help! :)
Title: Re: bitcoin-qt data directory is only a few gigabytes
Post by: LoyceV on February 07, 2018, 08:18:38 PM
It sounds like you've enabled pruning: -prune=<n>
Reduce storage requirements by enabling pruning (deleting) of old
blocks. This allows the pruneblockchain RPC to be called to
delete specific blocks, and enables automatic pruning of old
blocks if a target size in MiB is provided. This mode is
incompatible with -txindex and -rescan. Warning: Reverting this
setting requires re-downloading the entire blockchain. (default:
0 = disable pruning blocks, 1 = allow manual pruning via RPC,
>550 = automatically prune block files to stay under the
specified target size in MiB)
Title: Re: bitcoin-qt data directory is only a few gigabytes
Post by: Gimberg on February 07, 2018, 09:06:20 PM
It sounds like you've enabled pruning: -prune=<n>
Reduce storage requirements by enabling pruning (deleting) of old
blocks. This allows the pruneblockchain RPC to be called to
delete specific blocks, and enables automatic pruning of old
blocks if a target size in MiB is provided. This mode is
incompatible with -txindex and -rescan. Warning: Reverting this
setting requires re-downloading the entire blockchain. (default:
0 = disable pruning blocks, 1 = allow manual pruning via RPC,
>550 = automatically prune block files to stay under the
specified target size in MiB) Haha yep, maybe I should've checked the config file before posting ::)
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