>nohup hadoop fsck / -files -blocks -locations >cat nohup.out | grep [your block name]
Hope this helps. On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 5:17 PM, <20seco...@web.de> wrote: > Hi, > > just a short question. Is there any way to figure out the physical storage > location of a given block? > I don't mean just a list of hostnames (which I know how to obtain), but > actually the file where it is being stored in. > We use several hard disks for hdfs data on each node, and I would need to > know which block ends up on which harddisk. > > Thanks! > JS > >