I just installed go-ethereum (https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum), and I am running a node. I am using Ubuntu. I want to ask in which folder is the block data being stored? Where I can see how many blocks it has downloaded? Thank you very much!
2 Answers
the default for Linux is $HOME/.ethereum
user@host :~/.ethereum$ cd $HOME/.ethereum
user@host :~/.ethereum$ ls
blocks database details geth geth.ipc history keystore network.rlp protocol state
user@host :~/.ethereum$
you can change this with --datadir parameter
when you sync the blocks are downloaded in about a few hours, but what takes a lot to download is the state, blocks take about 60GB, but the state takes 700GB
blocks are stored mostly in geth/chaindata/ directory, but when they pass about 100k blocks they are moved to geth/chaindata/ancient directory
you can check sync status with
> eth.syncing
on the console. Currently the amount of state entries is approaching to 1 billion.
I opened chaindata folder, there are lots of files like:
000197.ldb 044223.ldb 058455.ldb 072099.ldb 074159.ldb 078064.ldb
000198.ldb 044234.ldb 058457.ldb 072101.ldb 074161.ldb 078065.ldb
000199.ldb 044245.ldb 058463.ldb 072102.ldb 074162.ldb 078066.ldb
000200.ldb 044253.ldb 058465.ldb 072103.ldb 074163.ldb 078067.ldb
000201.ldb 044264.ldb 058467.ldb 072104.ldb 074164.ldb 078068.ldb
000202.ldb 044291.ldb 058469.ldb 072105.ldb 074165.ldb 078069.ldb
Do those numbers for example 000197 represent block number?
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Geth stores recent blocks in a LevelDB database. Those are fixed-size chunks of the same database. Those numbers do not represent the block number though. Commented Sep 10, 2023 at 5:04