diff --git a/cmd/utils/flags.go b/cmd/utils/flags.go
index eee75d886a..071300a5db 100644
--- a/cmd/utils/flags.go
+++ b/cmd/utils/flags.go
@@ -1822,7 +1822,7 @@ func SetEthConfig(ctx *cli.Context, stack *node.Node, cfg *ethconfig.Config) {
 		log.Warn("The flag --txlookuplimit is deprecated and will be removed, please use --history.transactions")
 		cfg.TransactionHistory = ctx.Uint64(TxLookupLimitFlag.Name)
 	}
-	if ctx.String(GCModeFlag.Name) == "archive" {
+	if cfg.NoPruning {
 		if cfg.TransactionHistory != 0 {
 			cfg.TransactionHistory = 0
 			log.Warn("Disabled transaction unindexing for archive node")