In brief, this is system level configuration by Kafka.
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> Consumer offsets partitions can't be changed through command line.
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> You have to change the configuration file and set this
> *offsets.topic.num.partitions* property to change this.
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> On Sun, Mar 25, 2018, 12:49 Anu P
Hi,
I am trying to change the number of partitions for __consumer_offsets topic
by using the following command. However, I get an error stating "Number of
partitions for offsets topic cannot be changed"
*/opt/kafka/bin/kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper --alter --topic
__consumer_offsets --partitions