Hadoop no such file or directory while installing

Question

I have installed Hadoop and HDFS

I am also able to create directories and use them using

hadoop fs -mkdir /tmp
hadoop fs -mkdir /small

Now i try to run the following command:

hadoop fs -mkdir temp
hadoop fs -ls

I get this error

ls: `.': No such file or directory

​How to solve this? What am i doing wrong?

Answer 1

Try

hadoop fs -mkdir -p /user/[Username]

and then run your commands. It should work. You are getting this error because home directory is missing on HDFS for the user