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Title: How Free up Space from my vps with bitcoin-cli ? ubuntu 14.04 Post by: kingdice21 on September 05, 2017, 01:22:21 PM Hello everyone. ;D
I have a bitcoin client in my vps ubuuntu. but recently, I have no more space. to continue downloading the blocks of the blockchain. and search for google. and the only information I found was to remove two directories from the folder bitcoin -> blocks -> chainstate. but when I start the bitcoin client again. in less than 8 hours it again download all the blocks data. so my hdd is up again my question is. is there any way to erase the database. I do not want to again download all the blocks. jut start from 0 without having to uninstall the bitcoin client Title: Re: How Free up Space from my vps with bitcoin-cli ? ubuntu 14.04 Post by: ScripterRon on September 05, 2017, 02:36:08 PM Hello everyone. ;D You can't run a full client without downloading the complete blockchain. However, you can run a pruned client which just keeps the latest blocks on disk. You do this by adding 'prune=n' to bitcoin.conf, where n is the number of MBytes to allocate for stored blocks (n must be greater than 550). Old blocks will be automatically removed when the prune limit is reached. Note that a pruned node cannot supply historical blocks to other nodes nor can it do a rescan operation without re-downloading the blockchain.I have a bitcoin client in my vps ubuuntu. but recently, I have no more space. to continue downloading the blocks of the blockchain. and search for google. and the only information I found was to remove two directories from the folder bitcoin -> blocks -> chainstate. but when I start the bitcoin client again. in less than 8 hours it again download all the blocks data. so my hdd is up again my question is. is there any way to erase the database. I do not want to again download all the blocks. jut start from 0 without having to uninstall the bitcoin client Title: Re: How Free up Space from my vps with bitcoin-cli ? ubuntu 14.04 Post by: kingdice21 on September 05, 2017, 02:37:56 PM yeah thanks i fix that!
Title: Re: How Free up Space from my vps with bitcoin-cli ? ubuntu 14.04 Post by: miguelmorales85 on September 09, 2017, 12:07:16 AM Hello everyone. ;D You can't run a full client without downloading the complete blockchain. However, you can run a pruned client which just keeps the latest blocks on disk. You do this by adding 'prune=n' to bitcoin.conf, where n is the number of MBytes to allocate for stored blocks (n must be greater than 550). Old blocks will be automatically removed when the prune limit is reached. Note that a pruned node cannot supply historical blocks to other nodes nor can it do a rescan operation without re-downloading the blockchain.I have a bitcoin client in my vps ubuuntu. but recently, I have no more space. to continue downloading the blocks of the blockchain. and search for google. and the only information I found was to remove two directories from the folder bitcoin -> blocks -> chainstate. but when I start the bitcoin client again. in less than 8 hours it again download all the blocks data. so my hdd is up again my question is. is there any way to erase the database. I do not want to again download all the blocks. jut start from 0 without having to uninstall the bitcoin client Good answer but I think you need to clarify if pruned nodes can resolve transactions. Title: Re: How Free up Space from my vps with bitcoin-cli ? ubuntu 14.04 Post by: ranochigo on September 09, 2017, 02:45:18 AM You can't run a full client without downloading the complete blockchain. However, you can run a pruned client which just keeps the latest blocks on disk. You do this by adding 'prune=n' to bitcoin.conf, where n is the number of MBytes to allocate for stored blocks (n must be greater than 550). Old blocks will be automatically removed when the prune limit is reached. Note that a pruned node cannot supply historical blocks to other nodes nor can it do a rescan operation without re-downloading the blockchain. Good answer but I think you need to clarify if pruned nodes can resolve transactions. Title: Re: How Free up Space from my vps with bitcoin-cli ? ubuntu 14.04 Post by: miguelmorales85 on September 09, 2017, 09:40:39 PM You can't run a full client without downloading the complete blockchain. However, you can run a pruned client which just keeps the latest blocks on disk. You do this by adding 'prune=n' to bitcoin.conf, where n is the number of MBytes to allocate for stored blocks (n must be greater than 550). Old blocks will be automatically removed when the prune limit is reached. Note that a pruned node cannot supply historical blocks to other nodes nor can it do a rescan operation without re-downloading the blockchain. Good answer but I think you need to clarify if pruned nodes can resolve transactions. Thanks you very much for your answer, now I can keep my node pruned. I was worried about the reindex time and sync of the whole BC. Title: Re: How Free up Space from my vps with bitcoin-cli ? ubuntu 14.04 Post by: MFahad on September 13, 2017, 03:35:33 PM I would not try doing that, but rather get your private keys out, set up and new wallet, probably a lite version would be better, and then import the balances into the new wallet. That way you have safely stored them. Or you could just transfer the coins to a new wallet that is online or whatever works. It is much easier to move coins than to deal with fixing an ailing wallet set up.
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