NAME
nodetool compact - Force a (major) compaction on one or more tables or
user-defined compaction on given SSTables
SYNOPSIS
nodetool [(-h <host> | --host <host>)] [(-p <port> | --port <port>)]
[(-pp | --print-port)] [(-pw <password> | --password <password>)]
[(-pwf <passwordFilePath> | --password-file <passwordFilePath>)]
[(-u <username> | --username <username>)] compact
[(-et <end_token> | --end-token <end_token>)]
[--partition <partition_key>] [(-s | --split-output)]
[(-st <start_token> | --start-token <start_token>)] [--user-defined]
[--] [<keyspace> <tables>...] or <SSTable file>...
OPTIONS
-et <end_token>, --end-token <end_token>
Use -et to specify a token at which compaction range ends
(inclusive)
-h <host>, --host <host>
Node hostname or ip address
-p <port>, --port <port>
Remote jmx agent port number
--partition <partition_key>
String representation of the partition key
-pp, --print-port
Operate in 4.0 mode with hosts disambiguated by port number
-pw <password>, --password <password>
Remote jmx agent password
-pwf <passwordFilePath>, --password-file <passwordFilePath>
Path to the JMX password file
-s, --split-output
Use -s to not create a single big file
-st <start_token>, --start-token <start_token>
Use -st to specify a token at which the compaction range starts
(inclusive)
-u <username>, --username <username>
Remote jmx agent username
--user-defined
Use --user-defined to submit listed files for user-defined
compaction
--
This option can be used to separate command-line options from the
list of argument, (useful when arguments might be mistaken for
command-line options
[<keyspace> <tables>...] or <SSTable file>...
The keyspace followed by one or many tables or list of SSTable data
files when using --user-defined
