setQuotas error message is confusing when admin tries to setQuota on a file.
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                 Key: HADOOP-3572
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3572
             Project: Hadoop Core
          Issue Type: Improvement
            Reporter: Mahadev konar
            Assignee: Hairong Kuang
            Priority: Minor
             Fix For: 0.19.0


bin/hadoop  dfsadmin -setQuota 5 /tmp/a

here /tmp/a is a file.

setQuota: java.io.FileNotFoundException: Directory does not exist: /tmp/a

The error message should not say filenotfoundexception but something like input 
should be directory.

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