Hi, You need to manually force compaction if you do not care ending up with one big sstable (nodetool compact)
On 31 May 2018 at 11:07, onmstester onmstester <onmstes...@zoho.com> wrote: > Hi, > I've deleted 50% of my data row by row now disk usage of cassandra data is > more than 80%. > The gc_grace of table was default (10 days), now i set that to 0, although > many compactions finished but no space reclaimed so far. > How could i force deletion of tombstones in sstables and reclaim the disk > used by deleted rows? > I'm using cassandra on a single node. > > Sent using Zoho Mail <https://www.zoho.com/mail/> > > >