http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/topic/swapfile-in-varlibcassandra-directory-not-sure-how-it-got-created-can-we-delete-it Software, Support, and Training for Apache Cassandra en-US Fri, 24 May 2013 02:19:35 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.3 q http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/search.php http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/topic/swapfile-in-varlibcassandra-directory-not-sure-how-it-got-created-can-we-delete-it#post-7774 Mon, 03 Dec 2012 16:48:50 +0000 Sven 7774@http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/ <p>That is independent of Cassandra and more a Linux system administration issue. Cassandra is not creating that kind of file, this would seem like a linux swap file. Before removing it I would suggest you check that it is not being actually used in your system (check fstab). From the cassandra side I see no issue with removing the file (maybe just rename it first to see if there are other unexpected side effects). </p> http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/topic/swapfile-in-varlibcassandra-directory-not-sure-how-it-got-created-can-we-delete-it#post-7759 Sat, 01 Dec 2012 15:23:04 +0000 srk_user 7759@http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/ <p>I see a swapfile in /var/lib/cassandra folder. Not sure how it got created. But as it has taken lot of space, I would like to delete it. So wanted to check if somebody has seen this before and can we just delete this file.<br /> [xxxxxx@xxxxxx cassandra]$ ls -tlr<br /> total 4198428<br /> drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Jun 8 14:17 lost+found<br /> drwxr-xr-x 6 casadmin intsvcs 4096 Sep 17 18:58 data<br /> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4294967296 Sep 20 12:06 swapfile<br /> drwxr-xr-x 2 casadmin intsvcs 4096 Dec 1 10:05 saved_caches </p>