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service riak stop

# check for and kill any running beam processes

cd /var/lib/riak/
rm -rf ring
rm -rf leveldb

# double check your app.config and vm.args and ensure they have the desired settings

service riak start

# Once this is done on all of the nodes, join nodes 2-8 to the first node
riak-admin join 'node1name@ip'

# reload data