If I remember it correctly, C* creates a snapshot when you drop a keyspace. Run the following command to get rid of the snapshot: nodetool clearsnapshot
Mohammed Author: Big Data Analytics with Spark<http://www.amazon.com/Big-Data-Analytics-Spark-Practitioners/dp/1484209656/> From: Ted Yu [mailto:yuzhih...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2016 6:59 AM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: reducing disk space consumption 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
