I’m an idiot and only set up my node with a 500GB SSD which is already 76% full. I’m thinking the simplest solution in the near term would be to just switch over to using the remote Geth option instead of further filling my drive. Or would using the light client reduce drive space? What is the proper process for making the switchover? Should I switch to the remote and then delete my Geth volume, or some other order of steps? Thanks for any details that could make the process go smoothly.
I finally went ahead and switched to the Geth light client today, but it seems to never initiate synching. Any ideas? Process just seems to hang here:
INFO [01-19|00:19:57.408] Starting Geth on Ethereum mainnet...
INFO [01-19|00:19:57.408] Dropping default light client cache provided=1024 updated=128
INFO [01-19|00:19:57.409] Maximum peer count ETH=0 LES=10 total=50
WARN [01-19|00:19:57.409] The flag --rpcapi is deprecated and will be removed in the future, please use --http.api
INFO [01-19|00:19:57.409] Smartcard socket not found, disabling err="stat /run/pcscd/pcscd.comm: no such file or directory"
INFO [01-19|00:19:57.409] Set global gas cap cap=25000000
INFO [01-19|00:19:57.409] Allocated cache and file handles database=/root/.ethereum/geth/lightchaindata cache=64.00MiB handles=524288
INFO [01-19|00:19:57.426] Allocated cache and file handles database=/root/.ethereum/geth/lespay cache=16.00MiB handles=16
INFO [01-19|00:19:57.442] Initialised chain configuration config="{ChainID: 1 Homestead: 1150000 DAO: 1920000 DAOSupport: true EIP150: 2463000 EIP155: 2675000 EIP158: 2675000 Byzantium: 4370000 Constantinople: 7280000 Petersburg: 7280000 Istanbul: 9069000, Muir Glacier: 9200000, YOLO v2: <nil>, Engine: ethash}"
INFO [01-19|00:19:57.442] Disk storage enabled for ethash caches dir=/root/.ethereum/geth/ethash count=3
INFO [01-19|00:19:57.442] Disk storage enabled for ethash DAGs dir=/root/.ethash count=2
INFO [01-19|00:19:57.443] Added trusted checkpoint block=11042815 hash="d42b78…6c716b"
INFO [01-19|00:19:57.443] Loaded most recent local header number=0 hash="d4e567…cb8fa3" td=17179869184 age=51y9mo2w
INFO [01-19|00:19:57.443] Configured checkpoint registrar address=0x9a9070028361F7AAbeB3f2F2Dc07F82C4a98A02a signers=5 threshold=2
INFO [01-19|00:19:57.443] Starting peer-to-peer node instance=Geth/v1.9.24-stable-cc05b050/linux-amd64/go1.15.5
INFO [01-19|00:19:57.461] UDP listener up net=enode://eca88b843e065232f3475689d4f4eb411ed8e66587c4d99e0d40a29a006e3ab2637a725cde18d33aacd98b7a9a3e925c3966c186ca5e3fe452d67f5eb93dc6f3@[::]:30303
INFO [01-19|00:19:57.464] New local node record seq=2 id=81a4129dac40d096 ip=127.0.0.1 udp=30303 tcp=30303
INFO [01-19|00:19:57.464] Started P2P networking self=enode://eca88b843e065232f3475689d4f4eb411ed8e66587c4d99e0d40a29a006e3ab2637a725cde18d33aacd98b7a9a3e925c3966c186ca5e3fe452d67f5eb93dc6f3@127.0.0.1:30303
INFO [01-19|00:19:57.464] IPC endpoint opened url=/root/.ethereum/geth.ipc
INFO [01-19|00:19:57.464] HTTP server started endpoint=[::]:8545 cors=* vhosts=*
INFO [01-19|00:19:57.464] WebSocket enabled url=ws://[::]:8546
WARN [01-19|00:19:57.464] Light client mode is an experimental feature