Purge Kafka Topic

Question

Is there a way to purge the topic in kafka?

I pushed a message that was too big into a kafka message topic on my local machine, now I\'m getting an

Answer 1

UPDATE: This answer is relevant for Kafka 0.6. For Kafka 0.8 and later see answer by @Patrick.

Yes, stop kafka and manually delete all files from corresponding subdirectory (it's easy to find it in kafka data directory). After kafka restart the topic will be empty.