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
