brijoobopanna commented on a change in pull request #3917: URL: https://github.com/apache/carbondata/pull/3917#discussion_r514432464
########## File path: docs/cleanfiles.md ########## @@ -0,0 +1,78 @@ +<!-- + Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more + contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with + this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. + The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 + (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with + the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at + + http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 + + Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software + distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, + WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. + See the License for the specific language governing permissions and + limitations under the License. +--> + + +## CLEAN FILES + +Clean files command is used to remove the Compacted, Marked For Delete ,In Progress which are stale and Partial(Segments which are missing from the table status file but their data is present) + segments from the store. + + Clean Files Command + ``` + CLEAN FILES FOR TABLE TABLE_NAME + ``` + + +### TRASH FOLDER + + Carbondata supports a Trash Folder which is used as a redundant folder where all the unnecessary files and folders are moved to during clean files operation. Review comment: Can we please rewrite this part instead of telling unnecessary files and folders ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org
