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I had a private ethereum blockchain with 1 node running in production. I accidentally ran a geth init genesis.json --datadir . command in my main node.

Did this command overwrite the data directory folder of my main node? I was able to set up another node in the network on another server because geth process was running on a Unix system service daemon, which means that the data folder wasn't actually unlinked while the process was running.

Now I have 2 private blockchain nodes and I want to stop and reset the 1st one, but I'm not sure what will happen to the blockchain. If I stop the 1st node and then use the 2nd node as a peer to resync the first node when I restart, will the chain be corrupted? I have miners on both nodes and I'm using a clique algorithm for consensus.

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In recent versions geth doesn't overwrite the directory if it was already initialized.

You should be able to test if geth overwrite data repeating the steps in a new empty directory.

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  • What do you mean by current? I'm using 1.9.13-stable-cbc4ac26
    – JustinZ
    Commented Jul 28, 2020 at 13:18
  • @JustinZ I think at least from v1.8.xx it didn't overwrite any data, but every version of geth is different and probably you should test it.
    – Ismael ♦
    Commented Jul 28, 2020 at 13:26

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