https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/quot-Pending-Deletion-Blocks-276861-quot-What-does-this-mean/m-p/212102#M174041 <P style="margin-left: 20px;"><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/14345/sreekuppa.html" nodeid="14345">@kskp</A> <A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/518/aengineer.html" nodeid="518">@aengineer</A></P><P style="margin-left: 20px;">Hi,</P><P style="margin-left: 20px;">I wanted to know how this got resolved? by itself? Actually i dropped a huge table yesterday and today morning i did some config changes and restarted services, after restart i get an alert on ambari saying hdfs block deletion pending... its been more than 30 min, ithe alert is still there on one of the namenode in HA. </P> Wed, 14 Feb 2018 23:58:22 GMT pmj 2018-02-14T23:58:22Z