> The description of the bitcoin* packages mentions the following line: > This requires 20+ GB of space, slowly growing. > > That info seems to be severely outdated and actually uses 87+ GB on > my system, which is more then 4 times as much. I've put the severity > at normal instead of minor/wishlist as it failed to work properly on a > system where I had around 50GB space free when/where I installed it.
You might want to look into the "pruning" feature, that allows you to run bitcoind with as little as a few gigabytes. (The description still needs an update though) Cheers, aj
