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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
some basic questions for full node setup
by
fedemining
on 20/12/2018, 16:26:19 UTC
its been a while since i started syincing my btc full node.
according to many online forums and Jamson Loop tweets it should take a couple days for a full node to fully sync. with my cnfiguration its been two weeks
 24/7  and i'm still 3 weeks behind.
i put my Dbcache to 2000mb and my internet connection its over 15mb/s so why its so slow? what else can i do? i'm worried that the problem its my low speed hard disk that is a normal 1TB maxtor not an ssd. but i'm not sure of it!

second question: since i'm syincing my blockchain on a windows device what will i have to do to migrate it on a linux OS?
i guess that i will have to move that "blockchain" folder in the /home/.bitcoin/bitcoin folder can you confirm?
 
third question: i will have to prune the blockchain so my plan its to prune it and then migrate it on a linux OS. my plan its this:
1 turn off the node
2 migrate the pruned chain on the right folder of the new hardware
3 open the config file and set prune= my actual setup plus migrate the wallet.dat file
4 run bitcoind.
can you confirm my plan?
LOL

i will have some more question but since i don't want bother anyone for now its fine like this!
thanks for anyone who'll help