Lucene indexes query

[umajava]

Hi,

I have loaded 90 GB of data into Alfresco using Bulk file import tool and see that the /index folder which is used by Lucene has grown by 13 GB. I have later deleted content from Alfresco but I do not see the size of /index going down. Is the deleted content being indexed by Lucene? Does lucene also look at archive store? How do I delete content permanently?

Thanks,
Uma

[mitpatoliya]

Deleted Content will be moved to archived store and from there it will be deleted when the content cleaner job will run.
But those binary files will be moved into content.deleted folder it will not be deleted you have to do it manually.

[umajava]

Thanks for your reply. Does the deleted content, archived and actual content reside under /index folder which is used by Lucene? Shouldn't they be in different file systems?

Thanks,

[mitpatoliya]

Actually location of indexes and content store are depend on what you have configured in your alfresco-global.properties file and whatever I have specified is related to the content store could you just verify which folder in your indexes occupies maximum space? Actually lucene also segregate the indices based on the store in which contents are present so it is likely to change when contents gets deleted from the archival store.