While its off you can delete the files in the directory yeah Chris
> On Mar 6, 2018, at 2:35 AM, Kunal Gangakhedkar <kgangakhed...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi Chris, > > I checked for snapshots and backups - none found. > Also, we're not using opscenter, hadoop or spark or any such tool. > > So, do you think we can just remove the cf and restart the service? > > Thanks, > Kunal > > On 5 March 2018 at 21:52, Chris Lohfink <clohf...@apple.com > <mailto:clohf...@apple.com>> wrote: > Any chance space used by snapshots? What files exist there that are taking up > space? > > > On Mar 5, 2018, at 1:02 AM, Kunal Gangakhedkar <kgangakhed...@gmail.com > > <mailto:kgangakhed...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I have a 2-node cluster running cassandra 2.1.18. > > One of the nodes has run out of disk space and died - almost all of it > > shows up as occupied by size_estimates CF. > > Out of 296GiB, 288GiB shows up as consumed by size_estimates in 'du -sh' > > output. > > > > This is while the other node is chugging along - shows only 25MiB consumed > > by size_estimates (du -sh output). > > > > Any idea why this descripancy? > > Is it safe to remove the size_estimates sstables from the affected node and > > restart the service? > > > > Thanks, > > Kunal > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org > <mailto:user-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@cassandra.apache.org > <mailto:user-h...@cassandra.apache.org> > >