Topic: What if I delete blk0001.dat files (Read 1139 times)
You have to have all of them as the transactions are loaded in them.
You won't immediately notice anything wrong, until the moment when the software tries to access a block from one of those files, which could happen for a variety of reasons, including a node requesting it over the network. When that happens, it'll crash.
Yesterday I installed and ran butcoind on linux server and since yesterday it consumed around 10 or so GB of disk space so what I am thinking is what if I delete old files of block info like I have upto blk12345.dat can I delete upto blk5000.DAT will that create issues ?
In short, yes. It will probably cause issues.
Edit: Unless you're looking to delete them all and redownload all of the blockchain.
Also, you'll need all of the blockchain, which means multiple blk*.dat files that take up allot of space.
If you don't want to take up so much space you should look into a alternate client, such as Electrum or MultiBit.
Yesterday I installed and ran butcoind on linux server and since yesterday it consumed around 10 or so GB of disk space so what I am thinking is what if I delete old files of block info like I have upto blk12345.dat can I delete upto blk5000.DAT will that create issues ?
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