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Arpit Gupta commented on HADOOP-8171:
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I will post patches for 1.0 and 0.24 shortly.
> add -force option to namenode -format command
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> Key: HADOOP-8171
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8171
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 0.24.0, 1.0.2
> Reporter: Arpit Gupta
> Assignee: Arpit Gupta
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> Currently the bin/hadoop namenode -format prompts the user for a Y/N to setup
> the directories in the local file system.
> We should add a -force option which when present the user is not prompted.
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