Hadoop dfsadmin Commands

Hadoop dfsadmin Commands


Command
Description
hadoop dfsadmin -report
Report filesystem info and statistics
hadoop dfsadmin -metasave file.txt
Save namenode’s primary data structures to file.txt
hadoop dfsadmin -setQuota 10 /quotatest
Set Hadoop directory quota to only 10 files
hadoop dfsadmin -clrQuota /quotatest
Clear Hadoop directory quota
hadoop dfsadmin -refreshNodes
Read hosts and exclude files to update datanodes that are allowed to connect to namenode. Mostly used to commission or decommsion nodes
hadoop fs -count -q /mydir
Check quota space on directory /mydir
hadoop dfsadmin -setSpaceQuota /mydir 100M
Set quota to 100M on hdfs directory named /mydir
hadoop dfsadmin -clrSpaceQuota /mydir
Clear quota on a HDFS directory
hadooop dfsadmin -saveNameSpace
Backup Metadata (fsimage & edits). Put cluster in safe mode before this command.


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