Thanks for the note, yes, I do know what files I don't need anymore. And, I do realize the difference between grace period of CFs, and garbage collection (or at least I hope I do).
On the face value, documentation wasn't precise enough about JVM GC taking care of dropped CFs. I understand this is why "nodetool compact" didn't have the desired effect. I guess I'll have to do manual deletion after all. Maxim -- View this message in context: http://cassandra-user-incubator-apache-org.3065146.n2.nabble.com/Does-Major-Compaction-work-on-dropped-CFs-Doesn-t-seem-so-tp5946031p5957252.html Sent from the cassandra-u...@incubator.apache.org mailing list archive at Nabble.com.