suggestion : try the following command "lsof | grep DEL". If in the output if you see a lot of SSTable files; restart the node. The disk space will be claimed back.
thanks Sai On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 9:59 AM, Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I am using DSE 4.8.4 > On one node, disk space is low where: > > 42G > /var/lib/cassandra/data/usertable/data-0abea7f0cf9211e5a355bf8dafbfa99c > > Using CLI, I dropped keyspace usertable but the data dir above still > consumes 42G. > > What action would free this part of disk (I don't need the data) ? > > Thanks >