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I download and installed CDH 5 package succesfully on a single linux node in pseudo-distributed Mode on my CentOS 6.5

Starting Hadoop and verifying it is Working Properly as in this link

I succesfully finished the following steps

Step 1: Format the NameNode.

Step 2: Start HDFS

Step 3: Create the /tmp Directory

Step 4: Create the MapReduce system directories:

Step 5: Verify the HDFS File Structure

Step 6: Start MapReduce

while following command in step 7 I get the following error.

Step 7: Create User Directories

$ sudo -u hdfs hadoop fs -mkdir -p /user/hadoopuser

mkdir: '/user/hadoopuser': No such file or directory

(where hadoopuser is my linux login username)

If I create the directory manually as /user/hadoopuser in the filesystem, it is not accepting.

How to success the step 7:?

Please provide the sloution to procced the remaining installation.

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    $\begingroup$ try sudo hadoop fs -ls -l / and see what comes back. Usually a permissions error comes back explicitly, but lets have a gander at what the root path looks like. I wonder if the file system was never formatted. $\endgroup$
    – Steve Kallestad
    Jul 3, 2014 at 17:39
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    $\begingroup$ This might be better at serverfault.com $\endgroup$
    – Sean Owen
    Jul 3, 2014 at 21:36

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The simplest way to setup a user directory is to login to Hue as an admin and create a user account. This will create a directory in HDFS located at /user/yourusername with the correct permissions to work in.

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Problem is resolved. I created the folders in terminal.

6b. hdfs dfs -mkdir /user hdfs dfs -mkdir /user/hduser

  1. Put this file to HDFS: hadoop fs -put file1.txt /user/hduser/file1.txt hadoop fs -put file.txt file.txt
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You should create /user folder at first.

sudo -u hdfs hadoop fs -mkdir -p /user

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  • $\begingroup$ The -p flag means that you don't have to create the parent directory first. $\endgroup$
    – Tristan Reid
    Nov 9, 2015 at 22:26

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