Hi Gaurav,

When you disable your table, it does not accept any connection.
1. Disable table
2. delete your meta row
3. move/delete the data folders at hdfs://.../user/hbase/<table>/<regionId>
4. run hbck
5. enable your table.

- If you follow this instruction, hbck fix your holes.

HTH
Talat

2015-05-11 8:43 GMT+03:00 Gaurav Agarwal <gau...@arkin.net>:
> Hi Talat,
>
> Thanks for the reply! Few specific followup questions:
>
> 1. Do I need to disable and enable table for these operations? what would be
> exact sequence?
> 2. I guess somewhere in between these steps, I need to manually delete the
> real data files corresponding to these regions, from hdfs?
> 3. What would hbck -repair do in this case? Would it recreate the deleted
> regions in meta or would the rowkey space of existing regions be expanded to
> fill the holes?
>
> --cheers, gaurav
>
>
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