To be safe you could follow below prices on each node one at a time: Stop Cassandra Move sstable— mv will do it instantly Start Cassandra
If you do it online and a read trust comes for sane data that is being moved will fail. > On Jun 23, 2018, at 11:23 PM, onmstester onmstester <onmstes...@zoho.com> > wrote: > > Hi > I'm using two directories on different disks as cassandra data storage, the > small disk is 90% full and the bigger diskis 30% full (the bigger one was > added later that we find out we need more storage!!), > so i want to move all data to the big disk, one way is to stop my application > and copy all sstables from small disk to big one, but it would take some > hours and not acceptable due to QoS. > I thought maybe i could copy the big sstables (the one that won't be compact > in weeks) to the big disk (near casssandra data but not right there) while > cassandra and my app are still running > , then stop cassandra and my app, move big file to exact directory of > cassandra data on big disk (would take a few seconds) and then move remained > small sstables from small disk to big one. > Are there all of sstables related file immutable and (data, index, summary, > ...) would only be changed by compactions? Any better workaround for this > scenario would be appriciated? > Thanks in Advance > > Sent using Zoho Mail > > >