See the following usage:

For example, to change the max size of a family to 128MB, do:

  hbase> alter 't1', METHOD => 'table_att', *MAX_FILESIZE* => '134217728'


On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 3:03 PM, David Koch <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I reduced the MAX_FILE_SIZE to 64mb on an existing HBase table to force
> more regions. However, it seems that this limit is not respected by quite a
> large number of regions. I find several regions of >500mb size. I checked
> this by doing:
>
> hadoop fs -ls -h /hbase/<my_table>/*/<my_col_fam>
>
> What can be done to force re-sizing?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>

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