Hadoop input folder not found

Question

I am new to Hadoop and trying installing hadoop-2.7.3 . I can start the following process and can see dfshealth.html#tab-datanode at port 50070. But I am stuck " Copy the input files into the distributed filesystem", this file is present but still I am getting this error saying:

No such file or directory

Can anyone help out with the problem?

Answer 1

Hey,

This is because the user directory not found. Hadoop will copy the input into the user directory /user/username by default if the output directory does not specified.

Either create a user directory in Hadoop or copy the file using below command:

bin/hdfs dfs -put input /

This above command will copy the input directory into root(/) of HDFS.