Fully removing a decommissioned Cassandra node

Question

Running Cassandra 1.0, I am shrinking a ring from 5 nodes down to 4. In order to do that I ran nodetool decommission on the node I want to remove, then stopped

Answer 1

With Cassandra 2.0, you need to use sh nodetool decommission on node to be removed. In your case, check if you have removed entries in cassandra-topology.properties