Dear Saniya,
I Second to you on this. Am also find exactly the same folder on secondary data node. Also, How can I write files from my external application ? Regards, Yuvrajsinh Chauhan || Sr. DBA || CRESTEL-PSG Elitecore Technologies Pvt. Ltd. 904, Silicon Tower || Off C.G.Road Behind Pariseema Building || Ahmedabad || INDIA [GSM]: +91 9727746022 From: Saniya Khalsa [mailto:saniya.kha...@gmail.com] Sent: 19 July 2012 14:58 To: hdfs-user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: Hadoop filesystem directories not visible Hi Mohammad Tariq, Thanks for the reply!! The path to dfs.data.dir is /app/hadoop/tmp/dfs/data when i go there i find only these : BlocksBeingWriiten Current Detach In_use.lock storage tmp I am unable to see the created directories here. Regards Saniya On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Mohammad Tariq <donta...@gmail.com> wrote: Hello Saniya, If you are talking about the local FS, then it will be present at the location specified as the value of 'dfs.data.dir' property in hdfs-site.xml file. Regards, Mohammad Tariq On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Saniya Khalsa <saniya.kha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I ran these commands > > $HADOOP_HOME/bin/hadoop fs -mkdir /tmp > $HADOOP_HOME/bin/hadoop fs -mkdir /user > The directories got created and I can now see the directories using > following commands: > > [hadoop@master bin]$ ./hadoop fs -ls / > Found 5 items > drwxr-xr-x - hadoop supergroup 0 2012-07-16 14:11 /app > drwxr-xr-x - hadoop supergroup 0 2012-07-17 17:41 /hadoop > drwxr-xr-x - hadoop supergroup 0 2012-07-18 14:11 /hbase > drwxr-xr-x - hadoop supergroup 0 2012-07-19 14:11 /tmp > drwxr-xr-x - hadoop supergroup 0 2012-07-19 17:41 /user > > > I can see this data from both the nodes by typing the command ,but i cannot > view the directories created in the file path anywhere.Please tell me how > to see these directories created in file system. > > Thanks