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Hello,
I am a newbie. I installed Ubuntu and ran bitcoind from my user account. After a little while, I got the following message:
2022-04-23T03:48:14Z *** Disk space is too low! 2022-04-23T03:48:14Z Error: Disk space is too low! 2022-04-23T03:48:14Z FlushStateToDisk: write coins cache to disk (4827382 coins, 685726kB) completed (0.00s) 2022-04-23T03:48:14Z ForceFlushStateToDisk: failed to flush state (Disk space is too low!) 2022-04-23T03:48:14Z FlushStateToDisk: write coins cache to disk (4827382 coins, 685726kB) started 2022-04-23T03:48:14Z *** Disk space is too low! 2022-04-23T03:48:14Z Error: Disk space is too low! 2022-04-23T03:48:14Z FlushStateToDisk: write coins cache to disk (4827382 coins, 685726kB) completed (0.00s) 2022-04-23T03:48:14Z ForceFlushStateToDisk: failed to flush state (Disk space is too low!) 2022-04-23T03:48:15Z Shutdown: done
I allocated 500GB to / during installation. When I checked the disk space usage, I got the following:
root@simba:~# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /dev tmpfs 1.6G 2.0M 1.6G 1% /run /dev/sda4 492G 467G 90M 100% / tmpfs 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock tmpfs 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/loop0 249M 249M 0 100% /snap/gnome-3-38-2004/99 /dev/loop1 62M 62M 0 100% /snap/core20/1328 /dev/loop2 128K 128K 0 100% /snap/bare/5 /dev/loop3 66M 66M 0 100% /snap/gtk-common-themes/1519 /dev/loop4 55M 55M 0 100% /snap/snap-store/558 /dev/sda1 256M 90M 167M 36% /boot/efi tmpfs 1.6G 136K 1.6G 1% /run/user/1000 /dev/loop6 111M 111M 0 100% /snap/core/12834 /dev/loop7 9.0M 9.0M 0 100% /snap/canonical-livepatch/132 /dev/loop8 62M 62M 0 100% /snap/core20/1405 /dev/loop9 44M 44M 0 100% /snap/snapd/15177 /dev/loop10 45M 45M 0 100% /snap/snapd/15534 /dev/loop5 9.0M 9.0M 0 100% /snap/canonical-livepatch/138 root@simba:~#
I am lost as to why so much space is being used by bitcoind. I would appreciate if someone can shed light on this.
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April 24, 2022, 04:08:09 PM |
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It downloads and stores the entire blockchain, and it also has its own databases. All of that is 430+ GB now. With an OS also on that disk, 500 GB is not enough.
You could enable pruning and that would delete the vast majority of the blockchain. It reduces the stored data to around 5 GB (with the default setting) but at the cost of being unable to serve old block or to lookup historical transactions. However your node will still download and verify all blocks and transactions so it is still a full node. It will just delete them when they get old enough.
Pruning can be enabled by adding prune=550 to your bitcoin.conf file.
If you want to store the entire blockchain, you will need to get a bigger hard drive.
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April 24, 2022, 04:36:17 PM |
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/dev/sda4 492G 467G 90M 100% /
Your drive is completely full according to both bitcoind and your filesystem. I'd recommend trying to move off something before the next shutdown and restart so it doesn't start up and run extremely slowly - depending on the os - (normally about 1GB is enough).
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/dev/sda4 492G 467G 90M 100% /
Your drive is completely full according to both bitcoind and your filesystem. I'd recommend trying to move off something before the next shutdown and restart so it doesn't start up and run extremely slowly - depending on the os - (normally about 1GB is enough). The current blockchain size is 402.55 GB for Apr 25 2022 https://ycharts.com/indicators/bitcoin_blockchain_sizeOp should have some extra files than the bitcoin node on that disk, move them to a USB or external drive and it should work fine. And I would recommend a bigger disk, at least 1TB to avoid this kind of problems. The blockchain is growing up fast.
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That data is either not accurate or obtained from different full node implementation. Blockchain size on my device (using Bitcoin Core) is almost 430GB. You also need to include chainstate which has size about 4.7GB and index ( txindex and blockfilter) which has size 43GB. And I would recommend a bigger disk, at least 1TB to avoid this kind of problems. The blockchain is growing up fast.
I agree.
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April 27, 2022, 09:47:49 AM |
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Hello,
I am a newbie. I installed Ubuntu and ran bitcoind from my user account. After a little while, I got the following message:
2022-04-23T03:48:14Z *** Disk space is too low! 2022-04-23T03:48:14Z Error: Disk space is too low! 2022-04-23T03:48:14Z FlushStateToDisk: write coins cache to disk (4827382 coins, 685726kB) completed (0.00s) 2022-04-23T03:48:14Z ForceFlushStateToDisk: failed to flush state (Disk space is too low!) 2022-04-23T03:48:14Z FlushStateToDisk: write coins cache to disk (4827382 coins, 685726kB) started 2022-04-23T03:48:14Z *** Disk space is too low! 2022-04-23T03:48:14Z Error: Disk space is too low! 2022-04-23T03:48:14Z FlushStateToDisk: write coins cache to disk (4827382 coins, 685726kB) completed (0.00s) 2022-04-23T03:48:14Z ForceFlushStateToDisk: failed to flush state (Disk space is too low!) 2022-04-23T03:48:15Z Shutdown: done
I allocated 500GB to / during installation. When I checked the disk space usage, I got the following:
root@simba:~# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /dev tmpfs 1.6G 2.0M 1.6G 1% /run /dev/sda4 492G 467G 90M 100% / tmpfs 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock tmpfs 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/loop0 249M 249M 0 100% /snap/gnome-3-38-2004/99 /dev/loop1 62M 62M 0 100% /snap/core20/1328 /dev/loop2 128K 128K 0 100% /snap/bare/5 /dev/loop3 66M 66M 0 100% /snap/gtk-common-themes/1519 /dev/loop4 55M 55M 0 100% /snap/snap-store/558 /dev/sda1 256M 90M 167M 36% /boot/efi tmpfs 1.6G 136K 1.6G 1% /run/user/1000 /dev/loop6 111M 111M 0 100% /snap/core/12834 /dev/loop7 9.0M 9.0M 0 100% /snap/canonical-livepatch/132 /dev/loop8 62M 62M 0 100% /snap/core20/1405 /dev/loop9 44M 44M 0 100% /snap/snapd/15177 /dev/loop10 45M 45M 0 100% /snap/snapd/15534 /dev/loop5 9.0M 9.0M 0 100% /snap/canonical-livepatch/138 root@simba:~#
I am lost as to why so much space is being used by bitcoind. I would appreciate if someone can shed light on this.
Bitcoin Blockchain is roughly 389 gigabytes, you also have additional directories using 8GB, 2GB, and the files you may have installed, and package upgrades will eventually start to take up more and more. You can find information about the Blockchain Size here: https://www.statista.com/statistics/647523/worldwide-bitcoin-blockchain-size/
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The current blockchain size is 402.55 GB for Apr 25 2022 Bitcoin Blockchain is roughly 389 gigabytes Both are inaccurate. Achow101 was correct. Mine is 428 GB (459 billion bytes). root@simba:~# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda4 492G 467G 90M 100% / You can reduce the reserved blocks space as a temporary solution. The default is 5%, if you make it 2%, you gain 15 GB. See for instance this site.
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April 29, 2022, 08:46:03 PM |
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The current blockchain size is 402.55 GB for Apr 25 2022 Bitcoin Blockchain is roughly 389 gigabytes Both are inaccurate. Achow101 was correct. Mine is 428 GB (459 billion bytes). root@simba:~# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda4 492G 467G 90M 100% / You can reduce the reserved blocks space as a temporary solution. The default is 5%, if you make it 2%, you gain 15 GB. See for instance this site. Thank you for tips. I checked the tunefs and got following: root@simba:~# tune2fs -l /dev/sda4 | grep 'Reserved' Reserved block count: 6553600 Reserved GDT blocks: 1024 Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root) Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root) This doesn't seem like 15GB. Am I correct?
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April 29, 2022, 08:56:10 PM |
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The current blockchain size is 402.55 GB for Apr 25 2022 Bitcoin Blockchain is roughly 389 gigabytes Both are inaccurate. Achow101 was correct. Mine is 428 GB (459 billion bytes). root@simba:~# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda4 492G 467G 90M 100% / You can reduce the reserved blocks space as a temporary solution. The default is 5%, if you make it 2%, you gain 15 GB. See for instance this site. Thank you for tips. I checked the tunefs and got following: root@simba:~# tune2fs -l /dev/sda4 | grep 'Reserved' Reserved block count: 6553600 Reserved GDT blocks: 1024 Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root) Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root) This doesn't seem like 15GB. Am I correct? Never mind. I just realized this is the number of blocks. Thank you for this tip. It gave me back 15GB!
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It gave me back 15GB! Note the word "temporary" for the solution: having a disk this full will make it slower. I set it to 2% too on my own disks, but it's better not to fill it all the time.
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It gave me back 15GB! Note the word "temporary" for the solution: having a disk this full will make it slower. I set it to 2% too on my own disks, but it's better not to fill it all the time. Thank you very much for the help. After I got back the 15GB, I went to my Windows 11 installation and shrunk that volume to get additional space of 300GB (using Disk Management in W11). Then after a lot of head scratching on how to append this to root partition, someone on AskUbuntu had suggested using Gparted from a bootable USB. This helped tremendously. It allowed me to add the 300GB to the root partition and now I have 800GB of space. I ran Bicoincore last night and voila, I have all the blocks downloaded and syncd. Thank you everyone for your valuable assistance
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