The drop is what you ought to have done first, before removing the FS folder and the meta entries. It does all those actions for you. Why did you do it this way?
Do you see the table still appearing in the list outputs? Can you provide us a paste bin link of: echo "scan '.META.'" | hbase shell | grep cjjWaitHash On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Jiajun Chen <cjjvict...@gmail.com> wrote: > I deleted the folder use bin/hadoop fs -rmr /hbase/cjjWaitHash ,and deleted > the row with prefix cjjWaitHash in .META. > Now how can I drop the table cjjWaitHash ? -- Harsh J