safely delete the blockchain from .bitcoin directory

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I have bitcoind installed and I'd like to free up space by deleting the blockchain from my .bitcoin directory. What set of files and directories should I delete such that the next time I start bitcoind it will recover gracefully by downloading the blockchain again?

RentFree

Posted 2014-02-02T17:19:42.733

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related: Can the blk0001.dat and blk0002.dat files be deleted?

Murch 2014-02-02T17:27:44.080

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Delete the "blocks" and "chainstate" directories.

Blinking7

Posted 2014-02-02T17:19:42.733

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