Command to store File on HDFS

Question

Introduction

A Hadoop NameNode and three DataNodes have been installed and are running. The next step is to provide a File to HDFS. The following comman

Answer 1

If no path is provided, hadoop will try to copy the file in your hdfs home directory. In other words, if you're logged as utrecht, it will try to copy ubuntu-14.04-desktop-amd64.iso to /user/utrecht.

However, this folder doesn't exist from scratch (you can normally check the dfs via a web browser). To make your command work, you have two choices :

• copy it elsewhere (/ works, but putting everything there may lead to complications in the future)
• create the directory you want with hdfs dfs -mkdir /yourFolderPath