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I am running private blockchain using geth and my miners has stopped mining the data. A few days back I have removed old files from .ethash folder ... I am just wondering if that could be the reason that my miners are not working anymore.
Also, somewhere I read that I can remove .ethash folder completetly and the restart the blockchain but my concern is if I will restart the chain then will I loose existing data of chain?
Am I right and is there anything I can do?
The ethash folder does not contains any chain data, but cached files for PoW system (here is another questions tha can be useful delete .ethash folder.
Using the init command, will not delete any database (as far as I know, init command on an already started BC will not do anything).
If you want to remove the db completely, you can run the command geth --datadir <data-di> removedb.
