Jignesh You are creating a dir in hdfs by that command. The dir won't be in your local file system but it hdfs. Issue a command like hadoop fs -ls /user/hadoop-user/citation/ You can see the dir you created in hdfs
If you want to create a die on local unix use a simple linux command mkdir /user/hadoop-user/citation/input ------Original Message------ From: Jignesh Patel To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org ReplyTo: common-user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: hdfs directory location Sent: Oct 10, 2011 23:45 I am using following command to create a file in Unix(i.e. mac) system. bin/hadoop fs -mkdir /user/hadoop-user/citation/input While it creates the directory I need, I am struggling to figure out exact location of the folder in my local box. Regards Bejoy K S