On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Batranut Bogdan <batra...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to get cassandra to remove these old and unused tables? > Those directories have to exist after DROP because snapshots taken when you drop, and the snapshots are in a subdirectory of those directories. nodetool clearsnapshot Will clear the snapshots; I don't believe there is any way to make cassandra actually clean up the directories. If I were you I might file a trivial feature request in the Cassandra project JIRA. =Rob