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user4176413
user4176413

Reputation:

Hadoop: Cannot delete a directory. Name node is in safe mode

When I am trying to delete a directory in the HDFS file system, I am getting the following error:

Cannot delete directory. Name node is in safe mode.

How to solve this issue? Please advice.

Upvotes: 11

Views: 14420

Answers (3)

Philip
Philip

Reputation: 183

if you are using hadoop 2.9.0 or higher, use 

hdfs dfsadmin -safemode leave

Upvotes: 12

edwcd15
edwcd15

Reputation: 11

In my case the hadoop dfsadmin -safemode leave canceled safemode but as soon as I tried to delete the old directory, the system returned to safemode.

I deleted all the tmp folders that I could find related to hadoop installations but the old directory did not disappear and it could not be deleted.

Finally I used:

ps aux | grep -i namenode

and discovered that there was a running process that was using parameters from an older Hadoop implementation (different version). I killed the process using kill pid and finally this action removed the old directory.

Upvotes: 1

Shashikanth Komandoor
Shashikanth Komandoor

Reputation: 811

If you see that error that means the Namenode is in safe mode and it is almost equivalent to read-only mode.

To leave the namenode from the safemode run the below command:

$ hadoop dfsadmin –safemode leave

Upvotes: 12

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