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Cleanup cassandra snapshots if cassandra is down

On my cluster cassandra shutdown because of insuffishient disk space, that taken by cassandra snapshots. A common way to delete snapshots is run nodetool clearsnapshot command, but how can I run nodetool, if cassandra is down and dont want to start ?

last logs from debug.log after systemctl restart cassandra

DEBUG [main] 2024-12-23 16:58:44,857 DatabaseDescriptor.java:452 - Syncing log with a period of 10000ms
INFO  [main] 2024-12-23 16:58:44,857 DatabaseDescriptor.java:460 - DiskAccessMode 'auto' determined to be mmap, indexAccessMode is mmap
INFO  [main] 2024-12-23 16:58:44,858 DatabaseDescriptor.java:514 - Global memtable on-heap threshold is enabled at 1008MiB
INFO  [main] 2024-12-23 16:58:44,858 DatabaseDescriptor.java:518 - Global memtable off-heap threshold is enabled at 1008MiB
INFO  [main] 2024-12-23 16:58:44,862 DatabaseDescriptor.java:585 - Native transport rate-limiting disabled.
WARN  [main] 2024-12-23 16:58:44,981 DatabaseDescriptor.java:650 - Only 24.971GiB free across all data volumes. Consider adding more capacity to your cluster or removing obsolete snapshots
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