Using hbck is recommended for such scenario. Did you look at master / region server logs to see if there is some clue during table drop operation ?
Cheers On Jul 27, 2014, at 10:00 PM, Qiang Tian <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Ted, > An user on 0.96 deletes a table region on HDFS by mistake, so he wants to > delete the entire table and recreate it. after disable&drop, he finds the > table's region info still exists in meta table.. > > from the code, we should be able to delete the related info during table > drop, I suspect the startRow(<tablename>,,) in getTableStartRowForMeta > might not be correct? > > ps could hbck tool could fix it? (he deleted it finally via java code, will > see if we could repro it...) > > > > On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Ted Yu <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Deleting from hbase:meta is for advanced users :-) >> >> Can you tell us why that row needs to be deleted ? >> >> Cheers >> >> >> On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 8:32 PM, Qiang Tian <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Guys, >>> >>> for a row in hbase:meta like below, how to delete it? due to the chars of >>> startkey, it cannot be found. >>> delete >> 'hbase:meta','moma,\x00"\x00\x00\x00\x012+\xF8\xCB\xF0,1406468625503.6936ebd2ae1d85fc09f243a767229339.','info:seqnumDuringOpen' >>> >>> ERROR: Row Not Found >>> >>> thanks! >>
