You can achieve this goal by deleting all the HFiles of this table. Remember just Hfile, but not the region folders. We did it before with a simple script that loop through the Hfiles, very easy.
Thanks Tian-Ying -----Original Message----- From: Ted Yu [mailto:yuzhih...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 9:28 AM To: user@hbase.apache.org Subject: Re: Empty a table To my knowledge there is no such tool. You can file a JIRA in case someone has bandwidth to work on such tool. Thanks On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 8:13 AM, Jean-Marc Spaggiari <jean-m...@spaggiari.org > wrote: > Hi, > > Is there an easy way to empty a table but keep the regions? Truncate > will remove everything even the splitting. But I want to keep the > regions the way they are. I just want to clean them. Is there a simple > way to do that with the shell or something like that? > > Thanks, > > JM >
