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Under Minimum Requirements, at least mention that the storage requirement assumes pruned mode

Open cointastical opened this issue 3 years ago • 0 comments

The current Minimum Requirements shows: 7 gigabytes of free disk space

https://bitcoin.org/en/full-node#minimum-requirements

That's about two orders of magnitude too low for the typical node, and that's because it is assuming the node is running in pruned mode.

Pruning is explained under Configuration Tuning, and there it does read: This can reduce the disk usage from over 350GB to around 7GB.

https://bitcoin.org/en/full-node#reduce-storage

But many using this document to "run a full node" won't be able to because they didn't see that part until they had already begun installation (on equipment that does not meet the minimum requirement, when not running pruned mode).

This is a request to update the document to either add "(in pruned mode)" or something to that effect to that X GB mention, or to show both, e.g.: X GB (in pruned mod), or XXX GB (using default)

cointastical avatar Apr 17 '22 20:04 cointastical