How to find the number of blocks for a file in Hadoop

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I have configured the Hadoop Cluster in the Local system. I want to know the number of blocks for a file in Hadoop. How can I do that?

Oct 13, 2020 in Big Data Hadoop by akhtar
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Hi@akhtar,

You can use Hadoop file system command to know the blocks for the specific file. To view the blocks for the specific file you can use the below command.

$ hadoop fsck /path/to/file -files -blocks
answered Oct 13, 2020 by MD
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