How can I remove Kafka topics marked for deletion

Question

I have several Kafka topics I used as tests. Now I want to get rid of them all by cleaning up my kafka topic list. I set the variable delete.topic.enable=true, I stopped and restarted the zookeeper and kafka servers. But nothing helped me. The topics are still there, 'marked for deletion'. I read this question, but didn't find any answer. Otherwise, here it is suggested to remove manually any topic. But how do I do that? At the end of the story, manually or by command line, how do I remove Kafka topics for good?

Answer 1

Solved it: it is enough to manually delete the folders which contains all the logs from Zookeeper and Kafka servers.