C:\Users\duansf>mongo
MongoDB shell version: 2.6.6
connecting to: test

> use test
switched to db test
> show collections
articles
books
chenfeng
dsf
fs.chunks
fs.files
system.indexes
system.profile
test
users


> db.books.drop();
true
>
删除books这个collection，但是查看数据文件发现大小不变，MongoDB不会自动释放文件空间


db.repairDatabase() //执行这个命令后，Mongodb会把不需要的空间释放出来

> db.repairDatabase()
{ "ok" : 1 }
>
注意:repairDatabase期间会产生锁，建议关闭应用后再进行此操作

官方文档对这个命令的解释如下：


repairDatabase requires free disk space equal to the size of your current data set plus 2 gigabytes. If the volume that holds dbpath lacks sufficient space, 
you can mount a separate volume and use that for the repair. When mounting a separate volume for repairDatabase you must run repairDatabase from the command 
line and use the --repairpath switch to specify the folder in which to store temporary repair files.

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