bitcoind has -prune=0 hardcoded but the guide says it's optional

[pyskell]

• I'm submitting a ...

  • bug report
  • feature request
  • support request

• What is the current behavior?
  As per the guide pruning is automatically turned off if low on disk space.

However I'm above 150 GB but still want to prune, and to accomplish this I can't simply check the UI box in bitcoind as the configuration file shipped with the node launcher adds prune=0 and txindex=1 to bitcoin.conf.

• What is the motivation / use case for changing the behavior?
  This is, in my opinion, non-obvious to users.

• Please tell us about your environment:

  • Operating System: [ Windows ]

• Other information (e.g. detailed explanation, stacktraces, related issues, suggestions how to fix, links for us to have context, eg. stackoverflow, gitter, etc)

It would be nice to have a check box in the node launcher to do the first launch of bitcoind as either a pruned or full node.

[pyskell]

Also seems that any relaunching of bitcoind with the node launcher overwrites my bitcoin.conf.

[tutacrypto]

Hey pyskell,

I had the same issue : started downloading without pruning but then had to turn it on.
So my node launcher wasn't showing any "warning : pruning is on", and it was desactivated in my bitcoin.conf file.

I changed prune=10000 but still had no message from my node launcher. Then I changed txindex=1 to txindex=0, restarted the node launcher and the warning pruning message was there.
Now my bitcoin client is reindexing all the previously downloaded blocks, which I think it needs to download the latest ones (couldn't finish the download before due to disk space). Then it will probably discard the index and the old blocks.

I am not sure of what I am doing so maybe wait for confirmation from others, but from what I understood txindex is not needed anymore for lnd (see : lightningnetwork/lnd#751).
I'm on osX 10.14.3, bitcoin-core 0.17.1 and node launcher 5.6!

[pfergi42]

I'm also struggling with this. My machine only has about 175GB of free disk, so the 150GB limit does not apply to trigger the pruning.

Why can't I just tick a box to enable pruning, or how do enable pruning at all?

In the version I'm using there is no "main" tab that I can find as in the screenshot above. Thank you!