Free up space on your consensus client
Your consensus client (Teku, Nimbus, Lighthouse or Prysm) uses too much disk? Free up space with one click. Your validator keys stay safe.
Is Teku, Nimbus, Lighthouse or Prysm using a lot of disk space? You can fix it with one click. Your validator keys stay safe.
Do I need this?
Only if the client uses more than 200 GB.
Your AVADO tells you on Home, with a message like Teku is using 883 GB and a Free up space button.
How to free up space
1. Click Free up space
Open My DApps, click your client (for example Teku), then click Free up space at the top.
2. Click Free up space again to confirm
3. Wait
After a few minutes you see: Deleted … of beacon data. It is syncing again from its checkpoint.
Your validators work again after about 15 to 30 minutes.
That's it.
Keep your AVADO switched on while this runs.
What stays safe
Your validator keys
Your slashing protection
Your settings
Only the downloaded chain data is deleted. The client downloads a fresh, small copy.
Is my client "archive" or "pruned"?
Switch to Advanced (bottom left), then go to System → Storage. Under your client you see its Storage mode:
Recent data only (minimal): smallest. Best for staking.
All blocks (pruned): bigger, keeps growing slowly.
Full history (archive): biggest. Only needed for special uses. You see Open settings instead of Free up space: remove the archive setting there first.
From Teku 0.0.76, Teku uses Recent data only (minimal).
Never do this
Never delete a client's data any other way. It holds your validator keys.
Never add the same validator keys to a second client. Your validators can be penalised (slashed).
No Free up space button?
Update your AVADO: System → Updates. See Updates, storage and history.
Still no button? Contact AVADO support, or your Priority Care contact.
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