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Re: "Disk space is too low! - running bitcoind
by
FuloosIO
on 27/04/2022, 09:47:49 UTC
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, meaning you have additionally directories using 8GB, 2GB, and the files you may have installed, and packages 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/