Yes i checked and cleared all snapshots and also i had incremental backups in backup folder ..i removed the same .. its purely data..
On Friday, September 17, 2021, Bowen Song <bo...@bso.ng> wrote: > Assuming your total disk space is a lot bigger than 50GB in size > (accounting for disk space amplification, commit log, logs, OS data, etc.), > I would suspect the disk space is being used by something else. Have you > checked that the disk space is actually being used by the cassandra data > directory? If so, have a look at 'nodetool listsnapshots' command output as > well. > > > On 17/09/2021 05:48, Abdul Patel wrote: > >> Hello >> >> We have cassandra with leveledcompaction strategy, recently found >> filesystem almost 90% full but the data was only 10m records. >> Manual compaction will work? As not sure its recommended and space is >> also constraint ..tried removing and adding one node and now data is at >> 20GB which looks appropropiate. >> So is only solution to reclaim space is remove/add node? >> >
