Hi Abhishek, You can use fsck for this purpose
hadoop fsck <HDFS directory> -files -blocks -locations --- Displays what you want *------------------------* Cheers !!! Siddharth Tiwari Have a refreshing day !!! "Every duty is holy, and devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God.” "Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don't limit myself" From: [email protected] Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 22:10:37 +0530 Subject: How do we view the blocks of a file in HDFS To: [email protected] hi, If I push a file into HDFS that runs on a 4 node cluster with 1 namenode and 3 datanodes, how can I view where on the datanodes are the blocks of this file?I would like to view the blocks and their replicas individually. How can I do this? The answer is very critical for my current task which is halted :) A detailed answer will be highly appreciated.Thank you! With Regards, Abhishek S
