cmd/geth: make it possible to autopilot removedb #28725
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Supersedes #28721
When managing geth over docker, sometimes it's desirable to do a partial wipe: delete state but retain freezer data. This can be a bit tricky: the ansible scripts to delete files individually are slow, a faster way to do it is to
This "works" but it's clumsy, and now that we have both block-data and state-data in freezer, it's a bit incomplete, the correct thing to do would be to save only the block-data, not the state-data.
This PR implements an alternative way to achieve the same thing, by making it possible to run
geth removedb
non-interactive, using boolean options instead.Explicitly removing chain (it asks about state, no question about chain):
Both specified, so no question asked (but it's still printed):
Both specified for deletion:
Nothing specified: