Found the answer: it would be deleted after gc_grace Just decreased the gc_grace, run compact, and the "marked_deleted" partitions purged from sstable
Sent using https://www.zoho.com/mail/ ---- On Wed, 24 Apr 2019 14:15:33 +0430 onmstester onmstester <onmstes...@zoho.com.INVALID> wrote ---- Just deleted multiple partitions from one of my tables, dumping sstables shows that the data successfully deleted, but the 'marked_deleted' rows for each of partitions still exists on sstable and allocates storage. Is there any way to get rid of these delete statements storage overhead (everything be deleted after final compactions, even the delete statements)? Sent using https://www.zoho.com/mail/