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/