If you have hadoop superuser/administrative permissions you can use fsck with correct options to view block report and locations for every block.
For further information please refer - http://hadoop.apache.org/core/docs/r0.20.0/commands_manual.html#fsck On 5/19/09 12:13 AM, "Foss User" <foss...@gmail.com> wrote: I know that if a file is very large, it will be split into blocks and the blocks would be spread out in various data nodes. I want to know whether I can find out through GUI or logs exactly where which data nodes contain which file blocks of a particular huge text file? - Ravi
