My situation
du -sh .bitcoin/
14G .bitcoin/
I enabled pruning with a limit of 6 GB
bitcoin-qt -prune=6000
I wait, but it’s still 14G
du -sh .bitcoin/
14G .bitcoin/
Even after I close, edit .bitcoin/bitcoin.conf
to put
prune=6000
and then restart bitcoin-qt, it still shows 14G occupied space.
Why?
System is: Slackware 15.0
Bitcoin version is : 27.1.0
The size of “ldb” files is various
du -shc .bitcoin/chainstate/*
....
436K .bitcoin/chainstate/3482775.ldb
524K .bitcoin/chainstate/3482776.ldb
956K .bitcoin/chainstate/3482777.ldb
564K .bitcoin/chainstate/3482778.ldb
456K .bitcoin/chainstate/3482779.ldb
908K .bitcoin/chainstate/3482780.ldb
224K .bitcoin/chainstate/3482781.ldb
64K .bitcoin/chainstate/3482782.ldb
60K .bitcoin/chainstate/3482783.ldb
1,1M .bitcoin/chainstate/3482784.ldb
1,2M .bitcoin/chainstate/3482785.ldb
2,1M .bitcoin/chainstate/3482786.ldb
2,1M .bitcoin/chainstate/3482787.ldb
13G total