From 65a449f8e3b1bd95a0978b68cd6ce3ddda832658 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sjors Provoost Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2018 17:48:16 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Explain when reindex-chainstate can be used instead of reindex --- src/init.cpp | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/init.cpp b/src/init.cpp index fe4fba8cd..87650c327 100644 --- a/src/init.cpp +++ b/src/init.cpp @@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ void SetupServerArgs() "Warning: Reverting this setting requires re-downloading the entire blockchain. " "(default: 0 = disable pruning blocks, 1 = allow manual pruning via RPC, >%u = automatically prune block files to stay under the specified target size in MiB)", MIN_DISK_SPACE_FOR_BLOCK_FILES / 1024 / 1024), false, OptionsCategory::OPTIONS); gArgs.AddArg("-reindex", "Rebuild chain state and block index from the blk*.dat files on disk", false, OptionsCategory::OPTIONS); - gArgs.AddArg("-reindex-chainstate", "Rebuild chain state from the currently indexed blocks", false, OptionsCategory::OPTIONS); + gArgs.AddArg("-reindex-chainstate", "Rebuild chain state from the currently indexed blocks. When in pruning mode or if blocks on disk might be corrupted, use full -reindex instead.", false, OptionsCategory::OPTIONS); #ifndef WIN32 gArgs.AddArg("-sysperms", "Create new files with system default permissions, instead of umask 077 (only effective with disabled wallet functionality)", false, OptionsCategory::OPTIONS); #else