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Execution client prune

Automatic Nethermind prune​

By default, Nethermind will prune when free disk space falls below 350 GiB on mainnet, or 50 GiB on testnet. If you want to disable that, nano .env and change AUTOPRUNE_NM to false.

Continuous Besu prune​

Besu continuously prunes with BONSAI, and from 24.1.0 on also prunes its trie-logs. A long-running Besu may benefit from a manual trie-log prune, once.

Continuous Geth prune​

Geth continuously prunes if synced with PBSS. If you are using an old hash-synced Geth, run ./ethd resync-execution to use PBSS. This will cause downtime while Geth syncs, which can take 6-12 hours.

Manual Nethermind or Besu prune​

Run ./ethd prune-nethermind if using Nethermind. It will check prerequisites, online prune Nethermind, and restart it.

Run ./ethd prune-besu if using a long-running Besu. It will check prerequisites, offline prune Besu trie-logs, and restart it.