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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# Copyright (c) 2018 The Bitcoin Core developers
+# Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
+# file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
+"""Test the blocksdir option.
+"""
+
+import os
+import shutil
+
+from test_framework.test_framework import BitcoinTestFramework, initialize_datadir
+
+
+class BlocksdirTest(BitcoinTestFramework):
+    def set_test_params(self):
+        self.setup_clean_chain = True
+        self.num_nodes = 1
+
+    def run_test(self):
+        self.stop_node(0)
+        shutil.rmtree(self.nodes[0].datadir)
+        initialize_datadir(self.options.tmpdir, 0)
+        self.log.info("Starting with non exiting blocksdir ...")
+        blocksdir_path = os.path.join(self.options.tmpdir, 'blocksdir')
+        self.nodes[0].assert_start_raises_init_error(["-blocksdir=" + blocksdir_path], 'Error: Specified blocks directory "{}" does not exist.'.format(blocksdir_path))
+        os.mkdir(blocksdir_path)
+        self.log.info("Starting with exiting blocksdir ...")
+        self.start_node(0, ["-blocksdir=" + blocksdir_path])
+        self.log.info("mining blocks..")
+        self.nodes[0].generate(10)
+        assert os.path.isfile(os.path.join(blocksdir_path, "regtest", "blocks", "blk00000.dat"))
+        assert os.path.isdir(os.path.join(self.nodes[0].datadir, "regtest", "blocks", "index"))
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    BlocksdirTest().main()