I provided the config directory explicitly and now it works
hdfs --config etc/hadoop namenode -format ________________________________ From: Ping Luo <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 4, 2013 1:55 PM Subject: Hadoop 2.2.0: hdfs configuration I am trying to setup Hadoop 2.2.0 in cluster mode. I modified the hdfs-site.xml file in $HADOOP_HOME/etc/hadoop as below: <property> <name>dfs.namenode.name.dir</name> <value>/home/hadoop/hdfs/namenode/</value> </property> <property> <name>dfs.namenode.hosts</name> <value>localhost</value> </property> <property> <name>dfs.datanode.data.dir</name> <value>/home/hadoop/hdfs/datanode/</value> </property> I then tried to format the namenode with hdfs namenode -format It was trying to format filesystem in Storage Directory /tmp/hadoop-hadoop/dfs/name Can anyone tell me why the command did read the configuration I provided? Another question is where are the default configuration files? Luo
