probably user hdfs does not have access to /root on your local file system.
I would copy the file to /tmp and give it appropriate permissions and then try again. -- Arpit Gupta Hortonworks Inc. http://hortonworks.com/ On Oct 9, 2012, at 11:40 AM, Bai Shen <baishen.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a CDH3 cluster up and running. I'm on the namenode and trying to > copy a file into HDFS. However, whenever I run copyFromLocal, I get a file > does not exist error. > > [root@node1-0 ~]# sudo -u hdfs hadoop fs -copyFromLocal /root/url.txt / > copyFromLocal: File /root/url.txt does not exist. > > What am I doing wrong? url.txt exists in /root on the local filesystem. > > Thanks.
