~/.bitcoin (which is a softlink to a separate vmware virtual drive) dir is now almost 1tb #29909

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   kosuodhmwa commented at 0:51 am on April 19, 2024: none

   it’s happened after i

   • used version 27.x (built yesterday from master branch)

   but i don’t no it’s because of new version 27.0 or not. (?)

   bitcoin.conf file:

   proxy=127.0.0.1:9050 listen=1 bind=127.0.0.1

   server = 1 rpcallowip = 127.0.0.1 rpcport = 8332 rpcuser = myuser rpcpass = mypass txindex = 1

   i was thinking it’s enough to use 1tb drive for ~/.bitcoin directory (which contains the full block chain and other things)

   thank you very much for your feedback :-)

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   kosuodhmwa commented at 0:53 am on April 19, 2024: none

   that vmware virtual disk (where ~/.bitcoin dir is softlinked) is a separate physical sdd drive on win10 host (with vmware player free)

   

   almost 1tb size

3. 
   maflcko commented at 8:49 am on April 19, 2024: member

   Can you share the sizes of the largest folders?

   I don’t use txindex right now, but I could imagine that it requires several GB of space.

4. maflcko added the label Resource usage on Apr 19, 2024
5. maflcko added the label Questions and Help on Apr 19, 2024
6. 
   kosuodhmwa commented at 6:42 pm on April 23, 2024: none

   Now i’ve set it up without that “txindex” parameter = enabled… still the same issue…

   

7. 
   kosuodhmwa commented at 6:44 pm on April 23, 2024: none

   

   -> Screenshot #2 is the VirtualBox Host System location for the virtual drive that shows the space problem in VM

8. 
   kosuodhmwa commented at 6:44 pm on April 23, 2024: none

   So a ~1TB disk is not enough for the .bitcoin data directory wtf!?
9. 
   kosuodhmwa commented at 7:25 pm on April 23, 2024: none

   -> I also use Tor since yesterday. Before i was running it without tor for a few days (sync blockchain etc). After set up and configure tor, i runt into that problem.

   Maybe it’s an issue with tor and, e.g., log files!?

10. 
    maflcko commented at 5:36 am on April 24, 2024: member

    Now i’ve set it up without that “txindex” parameter = enabled… still the same issue…

    Unsetting txindex does not delete the txindex from storage.

    Can you please share the sizes of the largest folders in the datadir?

11. 
    kosuodhmwa commented at 10:54 am on April 24, 2024: none

    Thank you very much, will look on it ASAP! :-)
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13. 
    maflcko commented at 10:47 am on May 13, 2024: member

    Closing for now, due to inactivity, but the discussion can be continued regardless.
14. maflcko closed this on May 13, 2024

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