Purging old data from geth/free up disk space, purge specific data

[Code0x2]

Hello BSC devs, I have been running a BSC node from a few weeks ago, and I have noticed that the disk usage is rapidly increasing. Upon initial sync, geth only used up ~50gb of disk space. Today it is using over 125gb of disk space. This could be a problem if it continues expanding at this rate. Is there a way to limit this usage or purge off unneeded data?

I've also noticed lately there has been loads of CHI Gastokens being minted at ~1 gwei gas price and filling up a lot of blocks. Is there a way to make my node purge all the data at a specific contract to free up space?

[profforg]

Same problem :(
I've tried to apply this solution (ethereum/go-ethereum#15797 (comment)), to have fresh and clean data dir, but it's not working:

WARN [03-02|23:39:57.068] Synchronisation failed, dropping peer    peer=local err="retrieved hash chain is invalid"
WARN [03-02|23:39:57.068] Downloader wants to drop peer, but peerdrop-function is not set peer=local

[Code0x2]

Same problem :(
I've tried to apply this solution (ethereum/go-ethereum#15797 (comment)), to have fresh and clean data dir, but it's not working:

WARN [03-02|23:39:57.068] Synchronisation failed, dropping peer    peer=local err="retrieved hash chain is invalid"
WARN [03-02|23:39:57.068] Downloader wants to drop peer, but peerdrop-function is not set peer=local

That stuff is for geth 1.8/1.9. bsc-geth likely doesnt have that yet

[djtjc]

Same problem. I tried setting --datadir.ancient but my node directory is still filling up rapidly with hundreds of thousands of ldb files (I'm assuming one for each block)?

All I want to use the node for is seeing incoming pending transactions, so I really don't need to have all these files stored.

[luucasbruno]

can I get the same effect manually somehow? I'd like to shrink ancient data too.

[unclezoro]

The latest bsc version already support prune data, will kindly close this.