Yes as I mentioned you can set it anytime You already get the gist of it if it's the latter it'll defeat the entire purpose of pruning since the node operator has to provide enough space anyways To make it simple Since Fun88 Fun88poipet Com Core in pruned mode is still a full node so it has to verify each downloaded blocks and it does so as it downloads them not after downloading all After your node is done with a block (verification scan for transactions building indexes etc) it can decide to delete the earlier ones once it reached your target size Yeah man that's exactly how it works no need to download the whole thing first and then prune it would be dumb if it did that Fun88 Fun88poipet Com Core is smart it downloads verifies and prunes on the fly so with your 40GB free space setting 20GB should be fine but watch out for the chainstate folder it can spike up to around 13GB or so during sync as ABCbits mentioned I've done this on a small drive before and it worked but yeah like satscraper said keep some free space for SSD health maybe aim for 25-30% free if you can If you're tight on space pruning is a lifesaver but remember you lose some features like rescanning old wallets without redownloading everything
Yes as I mentioned you can set it anytime You already get the gist of it if it's the latter it'll defeat the entire purpose of pruning since the node operator has to provide enough space anyways To make it simple Since Fun88 Fun88poipet Com Core in pruned mode is still a full node so it has to verify each downloaded blocks and it does so as it downloads them not after downloading all After your node is done with a block (verification scan for transactions building indexes etc) it can decide to delete the earlier ones once it reached your target size Yeah man that's exactly how it works no need to download the whole thing first and then prune it would be dumb if it did that Fun88 Fun88poipet Com Core is smart it downloads verifies and prunes on the fly so with your 40GB free space setting 20GB should be fine but watch out for the chainstate folder it can spike up to around 13GB or so during sync as ABCbits mentioned I've done this on a small drive before and it worked but yeah like satscraper said keep some free space for SSD health maybe aim for 25-30% free if you can If you're tight on space pruning is a lifesaver but remember you lose some features like rescanning old wallets without redownloading everything

Yes as I mentioned you can set it anytime You already get the gist of it if it's the latter it'll defeat the entire purpose of pruning since the node operator has to provide enough space anyways To make it simple Since Fun88 Fun88poipet Com Core in pruned mode is still a full node so it has to verify each downloaded blocks and it does so as it downloads them not after downloading all After your node is done with a block (verification scan for transactions building indexes etc) it can decide to delete the earlier ones once it reached your target size Yeah man that's exactly how it works no need to download the whole thing first and then prune it would be dumb if it did that Fun88 Fun88poipet Com Core is smart it downloads verifies and prunes on the fly so with your 40GB free space setting 20GB should be fine but watch out for the chainstate folder it can spike up to around 13GB or so during sync as ABCbits mentioned I've done this on a small drive before and it worked but yeah like satscraper said keep some free space for SSD health maybe aim for 25-30% free if you can If you're tight on space pruning is a lifesaver but remember you lose some features like rescanning old wallets without redownloading everything

Yes as I mentioned you can set it anytime You already get the gist of it if it's the latter it'll defeat the entire purpose of pruning since the node operator has to provide enough space anyways To make it simple Since Fun88 Fun88poipet Com Core in pruned mode is still a full node so it has to verify each downloaded blocks and it does so as it downloads them not after downloading all After your node is done with a block (verification scan for transactions building indexes etc) it can decide to delete the earlier ones once it reached your target size Yeah man that's exactly how it works no need to download the whole thing first and then prune it would be dumb if it did that Fun88 Fun88poipet Com Core is smart it downloads verifies and prunes on the fly so with your 40GB free space setting 20GB should be fine but watch out for the chainstate folder it can spike up to around 13GB or so during sync as ABCbits mentioned I've done this on a small drive before and it worked but yeah like satscraper said keep some free space for SSD health maybe aim for 25-30% free if you can If you're tight on space pruning is a lifesaver but remember you lose some features like rescanning old wallets without redownloading everything