If you run a major_compact from the shell that should purge out deleted 
records. By default the major compaction happens on every table every 24 hours.

-chris

On Aug 25, 2011, at 12:17 AM, sasha.maksimenko wrote:

> hi!
> I need to free hdd space, so I want to delete some unimportant rows
> I'm using Thrift call
> deleteAllRow(TABLE, ROWID);
> to perform deletion of about 10 000 row (when I loaded them it was about 
> 30Gb). When I perform this operation I checked thru hbase shell that rows are 
> deleted, but used space of the disk is not changed
> I performed compact and major_compact operations (they returned 0 processed 
> rows) but space is not changed too.
> 
> So quesition what should I also do to indicate hbase physically remove this 
> rows

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