I've read the accepted answer, and it doesn't satisfy my question. The question is best answered by Splunk technical team, with insight into why 'delete' was built to hide/mask data, but not actually 'delete' it and free up space. The 'delete' command is inaccurately and poorly named.
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Can someone as Splunk explain the purpose of "delete" command, if it doesn't actually delete data from an index, but makes it un-searchable. As I understand it, "delete" operation is irreversible, the deleted data continues to consume disk space, and there is no way to free that up? Doesn't make sense to me. Am I not understanding it?
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