Hello I have CouchDB v2.3.1 (on Ubuntu 14.04) and I use it only for creating Wikipedia databases with mwscrape. My shards folder was too big, over 50 GB big, so I deleted one big db (frwiki) which had 32 GB in Fauxton. That db is gone now. After this, I thought now my shards folder should be about 20 GB but it is still 52 GB.
I don't find any documentation about that in the CouchDB Doc. I restarted CouchDB (/etc/init.d/couchdb restart) but nothing changes. How can I reduce the size of shards? How can I get rid of this ghost-db? My next step would be, if I cannot solve this issue, to uninstall CouchDB 2.x and reinstall 1.x, because I dont need that feature of cluster server anyway. I see only inconvenience for my use. Thanks frank
