HADOOP_HOME is the directory where you installed hadoop a directory above your conf directory (in other words parent directory of conf)
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Andrey V. Romanchev < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello Samir > Yes. Here is full section from my hdfs-site.xml > > <property> > > <name>dfs.name.dir</name> > <value>/mnt/ext/hadoop/hdfs/namenode</value> > <description> > Determines where on the local filesystem the DFS name node > should store the name table. If this is a comma-delimited list > of directories then the name table is replicated in all of the > directories, for redundancy. > </description> > <final>true</final> > </property> > > > 2013/2/6 Samir Ahmic <[email protected]> > >> Hi, Andrey >> >> Did you try <final>true</final> in your config ? It should be like this: >> >> <name>dfs.name.dir</name> >> <value>/mnt/ext/hadoop/hdfs/namenode</value> >> <final>true</final> >> >> Cheers >> >> >> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Andrey V. Romanchev >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Hello! >> > >> > I'm trying to install Hadoop 1.1.2.21 on CentOS 6.3. >> > >> > I've configured dfs.name.dir in /etc/hadoop/conf/hdfs-site.xml file >> > >> > <name>dfs.name.dir</name> >> > <value>/mnt/ext/hadoop/hdfs/namenode</value> >> > >> > But when I run "hadoop namenode -format" command, it formats >> /tmp/hadoop-hadoop/dfs/name directory instead. It seems like default >> directory. >> > >> > What am I missing? >> > > -- Nitin Pawar
