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Author: Admin | 2025-04-27
Can reduce the reserved blocks space as a temporary solution. The default is 5%, if you make it 2%, you gain 15 GB. See for instance this site.Thank you for tips. I checked the tunefs and got following:root@simba:~# tune2fs -l /dev/sda4 | grep 'Reserved'Reserved block count: 6553600Reserved GDT blocks: 1024Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root)Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root)This doesn't seem like 15GB. Am I correct? nlavji (OP) Newbie Offline Activity: 4 Merit: 14 The current blockchain size is 402.55 GB for Apr 25 2022Bitcoin Blockchain is roughly 389 gigabytesBoth are inaccurate. Achow101 was correct. Mine is 428 GB (459 billion bytes).root@simba:~# df -hFilesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on/dev/sda4 492G 467G 90M 100% /You can reduce the reserved blocks space as a temporary solution. The default is 5%, if you make it 2%, you gain 15 GB. See for instance this site.Thank you for tips. I checked the tunefs and got following:root@simba:~# tune2fs -l /dev/sda4 | grep 'Reserved'Reserved block count: 6553600Reserved GDT blocks: 1024Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root)Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root)This doesn't seem like 15GB. Am I correct?Never mind. I just realized this is the number of blocks. Thank you for this tip. It gave me back 15GB! nlavji (OP) Newbie Offline Activity: 4 Merit: 14 It gave me back 15GB! Note the word "temporary" for the solution: having a disk this full will make it slower. I set it to 2% too on my own disks, but it's better not to fill it all the time.Thank you very much for the help. After I got back the 15GB, I went to my Windows 11 installation and shrunk that volume to get additional space of 300GB (using Disk Management in W11). Then after a lot of head scratching on how to append this to root partition, someone on AskUbuntu had suggested using Gparted from a bootable USB. This helped tremendously. It allowed me to add the 300GB to the root partition and now I have 800GB of space.I ran Bicoincore last night and voila, I have all the blocks downloaded and syncd.Thank you everyone for your valuable assistance
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