what do you mean by "move your nodes data"? You just need to connect the new storage and point Bitcoin core to the new location.
It has to download all the blocks starting from genesis anyway once you go from pruned to full. You just want it to store the newly downloaded blocks onto the new drive. This is exactly how mine is set up.
Super easy to do in the config file. 👍
Cool, that makes sense. I guess it isn’t actually transferring anything from the pruned node anyway. Just replacing the storage location and adding data.
Same could be said then, I presume, if someone has a 1TB hard drive and the timechain eventually exceeds 1TB. They’ll need to get a new/larger external drive, restart the IBD there, and then point the node to the new data storage.
Thanks for helping me think this through. Studying Bitcoin means learning so much about so many diverse fields. Energy systems, economics, computer science, political philosophy, game theory, the list goes on 🫡
it's a fun journey. But yeah, that's pretty much the idea. The blocks are just being stored in a different location.
