This will happen automatically.
On Aug 27, 2009, at 6:04 PM, Andy Liu wrote:

I'm running a test Hadoop cluster, which had a dfs.replication value of 3. I'm now running out of disk space, so I've reduced dfs.replication to 1 and
restarted my datanodes.  Is there a way to free up the over-replicated
blocks, or does this happen automatically at some point?

Thanks,
Andy

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