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Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 16:43:38 +0100
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From: Samir Ahmic <ahmic.samir@gmail.com>
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Hi,
Can you try to execute format command like this:

hadoop --config  /etc/hadoop/conf namenode -format

Look like hadoop script is unable to pickup your config dir.

Cheers


On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Andrey V. Romanchev
<andrey.romanchev@gmail.com> wrote:
> Done.
> $ echo $HADOOP_HOME
> /usr/lib/hadoop/
> $ ll /usr/lib/hadoop/conf
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 16 =D0=A4=D0=B5=D0=B2  6 16:09 /usr/lib/hadoop/co=
nf ->
> /etc/hadoop/conf
>
> Sadly, it did not help.
>
>
> 2013/2/6 Nitin Pawar <nitinpawar432@gmail.com>
>>
>> HADOOP_HOME is the directory where you installed hadoop
>>
>> a directory above your conf directory (in other words parent directory o=
f
>> conf)
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Andrey V. Romanchev
>> <andrey.romanchev@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello Samir
>>> Yes. Here is full section from my hdfs-site.xml
>>>
>>>   <property>
>>>
>>>     <name>dfs.name.dir</name>
>>>     <value>/mnt/ext/hadoop/hdfs/namenode</value>
>>>     <description>
>>>         Determines where on the local filesystem the DFS name node
>>>         should store the name table.  If this is a comma-delimited list
>>>         of directories then the name table is replicated in all of the
>>>         directories, for redundancy.
>>>     </description>
>>>     <final>true</final>
>>>   </property>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2013/2/6 Samir Ahmic <ahmic.samir@gmail.com>
>>>>
>>>> Hi, Andrey
>>>>
>>>> Did you try <final>true</final> in your config ? It should be like thi=
s:
>>>>
>>>> <name>dfs.name.dir</name>
>>>> <value>/mnt/ext/hadoop/hdfs/namenode</value>
>>>> <final>true</final>
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Andrey V. Romanchev
>>>> <andrey.romanchev@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > Hello!
>>>> >
>>>> > I'm trying to install Hadoop 1.1.2.21 on CentOS 6.3.
>>>> >
>>>> > I've configured dfs.name.dir in /etc/hadoop/conf/hdfs-site.xml file
>>>> >
>>>> > <name>dfs.name.dir</name>
>>>> > <value>/mnt/ext/hadoop/hdfs/namenode</value>
>>>> >
>>>> > But when I run "hadoop namenode -format" command, it formats
>>>> > /tmp/hadoop-hadoop/dfs/name directory instead. It seems like default
>>>> > directory.
>>>> >
>>>> > What am I missing?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Nitin Pawar
>
>