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I recently installed Bitcoin Core on my Ubuntu 16.04 system. It's taking up too much disk space. How do I completely uninstall the software and remove data to free up my hard drive space?

earthmeLon
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  • Did you install debs from a PPA or maybe compile from source ? Could you provide the output of : dpkg -l | grep bitcoin ? – albert j Jan 22 '17 at 20:58

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Remove bitcoin:

  1. sudo apt-get remove bitcoind

Alternatively, you could just disable bitcoind from starting at startup:

  1. sudo systemctl disable bitcoind

Remove extra files:

If you remove your .bitcoin directory, you are removing your wallets/addresses and access to any BTC in those wallets, as well as the blockchain history.

When you run bitcoind, it typically creates a .bitcoin directory in the home directory of the running user. Depending on your setup, this could be a user named bitcoin, or be your user.

  1. rm -rf /path/to/.bitcoind/

If you're not sure where this path is, you could run the following commands to help find it:

  1. sudo updatedb
  2. sudo locate .bitcoind

More specifically, the blocks take up a lot of space and are found in .bitcoind/blocks/.

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In my version of Ubuntu (18.1) the files are located in .bitcoin and not in .bitcoind so use these commands:

  1. rm -rf /path/to/.bitcoin/
  2. sudo locate .bitcoin
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