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

Question

Hi Team,

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?

Answer 1

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