Best way to clear disk space?

[eskrano]

Hello, im using lotus wallet on my VPS and its took 160+GB ssd for now, what the best way to clear space and keep it used like 100GB for chain data store?

Thanks,

[rjan90]

Hey 😄 You can prune the chain by following this guide: https://docs.filecoin.io/get-started/lotus/chain/#compacting-the-chain-data

[eskrano]

@rjan90 yes its works i think but i do not have any free space on the server right now and i can not do anything, can i delete part of all chain data?

[rjan90]

@eskrano Then I would stop the daemon, remove the content in ~/.lotus/datastore/chain, and download a snapshot. It will cause some downtime, but then you will start with a "pruned" chain again.

[de-authority]

To be honest. 160Gb is really not enough for running a lotus node. you'll have to prune the chain constantly. if so, you should write a script to do this job.