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| author | Wladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com> | 2017-01-11 14:16:11 +0100 |
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| committer | Wladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com> | 2017-01-11 14:26:00 +0100 |
| commit | e2e624d9ce54d5d0f1fc0b1934c798804d7d7cff (patch) | |
| tree | 609be91bd4d9b67b812b75a5bf1b50a2aeabf7c2 /doc | |
| parent | ca615e6c05efac53ae0589f84e6cc33e98e15c88 (diff) | |
| parent | afffeea7d98ba358acd54a89bc0e7ae1c4d54023 (diff) | |
Merge #7871: Manual block file pruning.
afffeea fixup! Add pruneblockchain RPC to enable manual block file pruning. (Russell Yanofsky)
1fc4ec7 Add pruneblockchain RPC to enable manual block file pruning. (mrbandrews)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man/bitcoin-qt.1 | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man/bitcoind.1 | 12 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man/bitcoin-qt.1 b/doc/man/bitcoin-qt.1 index 24b529dac1..2129a151e2 100644 --- a/doc/man/bitcoin-qt.1 +++ b/doc/man/bitcoin-qt.1 @@ -75,11 +75,13 @@ Specify pid file (default: bitcoind.pid) .HP \fB\-prune=\fR<n> .IP -Reduce storage requirements by pruning (deleting) old blocks. This mode -is incompatible with \fB\-txindex\fR and \fB\-rescan\fR. Warning: Reverting -this setting requires re\-downloading the entire blockchain. -(default: 0 = disable pruning blocks, >550 = target size in MiB -to use for block files) +Reduce storage requirements by enabling pruning (deleting) of old blocks. +This allows the pruneblockchain RPC to be called to delete specific blocks, +and enables automatic pruning of old blocks if a target size in MiB is +provided. This mode is incompatible with \fB\-txindex\fR and \fB\-rescan\fR. +Warning: Reverting this setting requires re\-downloading the entire blockchain. +(default: 0 = disable pruning blocks, 1 = allow manual pruning via RPC, >550 = +automatically prune block files to stay under the specified target size in MiB) .HP \fB\-reindex\-chainstate\fR .IP diff --git a/doc/man/bitcoind.1 b/doc/man/bitcoind.1 index b99657a5fa..47539d8131 100644 --- a/doc/man/bitcoind.1 +++ b/doc/man/bitcoind.1 @@ -80,11 +80,13 @@ Specify pid file (default: bitcoind.pid) .HP \fB\-prune=\fR<n> .IP -Reduce storage requirements by pruning (deleting) old blocks. This mode -is incompatible with \fB\-txindex\fR and \fB\-rescan\fR. Warning: Reverting -this setting requires re\-downloading the entire blockchain. -(default: 0 = disable pruning blocks, >550 = target size in MiB -to use for block files) +Reduce storage requirements by enabling pruning (deleting) of old blocks. +This allows the pruneblockchain RPC to be called to delete specific blocks, +and enables automatic pruning of old blocks if a target size in MiB is +provided. This mode is incompatible with \fB\-txindex\fR and \fB\-rescan\fR. +Warning: Reverting this setting requires re\-downloading the entire blockchain. +(default: 0 = disable pruning blocks, 1 = allow manual pruning via RPC, >550 = +automatically prune block files to stay under the specified target size in MiB) .HP \fB\-reindex\-chainstate\fR .IP |