It should be cleaned up if the job finished normally or be killed by the command printed out by CLI or through JT. If the CLI is killed by ^C or the JT is killed etc the scratch dir won't be able to clean up.
On May 11, 2010, at 12:54 PM, Ashwin Agate wrote: > Hi > > I see that hive.exec.scratchdir doesnt get cleaned up in hdfs. > > Using hive checked out from svn built around feb 15. > > Using Hive CLI to run a series of hive jobs and my test cluster doesnt > have much disk space to spare > > Am I missing anything or has this been fixed in later versions of hive ? > > Thanks, > A
