What version of hbase? How many regions?
Can you get a list? (Scan .META.) You need to close the regions out on each regionserver, remove them from .META. then remove the table from the filesystem. The first step can be tricky. If only a few regions, you could try doing each one in turn sending a close region in the shell. When all are closed, could delete each entry in .META. for all regions closed. Then do rmr of the directory in the filesystem. St.Ack On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Vivek Krishna <[email protected]> wrote: > The table is in inconsistent state. Reason being it was not able to locate > a few regions. > > When I disable this table using hbase shell, the master log says > RetriesException and is in the process of transition. This takes a lot of > time. > > Is it possible to force drop this table? Or rather what are the steps > involved in manually dropping a table? > > > Viv >
