Important Directory Locations

In case you need to locate your validator keys, database directories or other important files.

Consensus engine files and locations

Lighthouse

# Validator Keys
~/.lighthouse/mainnet/validators

# Beacon Chain Data
~/.lighthouse/mainnet/beacon

# List of all validators and passwords
~/.lighthouse/mainnet/validators/validator_definitions.yml

#Slash protection db
~/.lighthouse/mainnet/validators/slashing_protection.sqlite

Nimbus

# Validator Keys
/var/lib/nimbus/validators

# Beacon Chain Data
/var/lib/nimbus/db

#Slash protection db
/var/lib/nimbus/validators/slashing_protection.sqlite3

#Logs
/var/lib/nimbus/beacon.log

Teku

# Validator Keys
/var/lib/teku

# Beacon Chain Data
/var/lib/teku/beacon

#Slash protection db
/var/lib/teku/validator/slashprotection

Prysm

# Validator Keys
~/.eth2validators/prysm-wallet-v2

# Beacon Chain Data
~/.eth2/beaconchaindata

Lodestar

# Validator Keystores
/var/lib/lodestar/keystores

# Validator Secrets
/var/lib/lodestar/secrets

# Validator DB Data
/var/lib/lodestar/validator-db

# Beacon Chain Data
/var/lib/lodestar/chain-db

Execution engine files and locations

Geth

# database location
$HOME/.ethereum

Besu

# database location
$HOME/.besu/database

Nethermind

#database location
$HOME/.nethermind/nethermind_db/mainnet

Erigon

#database location
/var/lib/erigon