Can anyone here confirm for me what is the total disk space requirements for a full ethereum blockchain synchronization using geth --fast?
It's about 11GB now.
I dont want to close geth and open Mist client to see if its synched or not, because the geth with the --fast switch supposed to be ran in one swoop and if I somewhat interrupt the --fast sync then I have to start all over again.
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So, how do I tell if geth has finished syncing [without interrupting the current geth running process]?
If you start Mist, it will connect to your already running geth.
Also I'm pretty sure it's like this:
If you start from scratch (blockchain dir empty) with --fast, you can close and restart geth anytime and it will continue with fast sync (even if you don't specify the parameter anymore then).
If you start from scratch without --fast, you can't then have fast sync anymore. You'd have to delete the blockchain first.
Just research it a bit, you should also use --cache=512 or more, depending on your RAM.