Go through hadoop-default.xml and look at all the paths that install into /tmp/hadoop-${user.name}. You should probably override all of those values in hadoop-site.xml.
-Michael On 6/15/07 12:23 PM, "Avinash Lakshman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dfs and mapred are the directories created inside the > /tmp/hadoop-<user-name> directory. > > Thanks > A > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Bieniosek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 11:31 AM > To: hadoop-user@lucene.apache.org; Phantom > Subject: Re: Formatting the namenode > > In hadoop-default.xml you should find: > > <property> > <name>hadoop.tmp.dir</name> > <value>/tmp/hadoop-${user.name}</value> > <description>A base for other temporary directories.</description> > </property> > > <property> > <name>dfs.name.dir</name> > <value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/dfs/name</value> > <description>Determines where on the local filesystem the DFS name > node > should store the name table. If this is a comma-delimited list > of directories then the name table is replicated in all of the > directories, for redundancy. </description> > </property> > > <property> > <name>dfs.data.dir</name> > <value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/dfs/data</value> > <description>Determines where on the local filesystem an DFS data node > should store its blocks. If this is a comma-delimited > list of directories, then data will be stored in all named > directories, typically on different devices. > Directories that do not exist are ignored. > </description> > </property> > > and some other properties that use the hadoop.tmp.dir prefix. What > subdirectories did hadoop create inside /tmp/hadoop-${user.name}? > > -Michael > > On 6/14/07 10:39 PM, "Phantom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi >> >> When I format my namenode it does format the directory specified under >> dfs.name.dir. However there is a folder under /tmp called > hadoop-alakshman. >> What is this for ? Will all blocks be stored under /var/hadoop > somewhere. >> Here is a copy of hadoop-site.xml >> >> <?xml version="1.0"?> >> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="configuration.xsl"?> >> >> <!-- Put site-specific property overrides in this file. --> >> >> <configuration> >> <property> >> <name>dfs.name.dir</name> >> <value>/var/hadoop</value> >> </property> >> >> <property> >> <name>fs.default.name</name> >> <value>hdfs://hadoop001.sf2p.com:9000</value> >> </property> >> >> <property> >> <name>mapred.job.tracker</name> >> <value>hadoop001.sf2p.com:50029</value> >> </property> >> >> <property> >> <name>mapred.job.tracker.info.port</name> >> <value>50030</value> >> </property> >> >> <property> >> <name>mapred.child.java.opts</name> >> <value>-Xmx1024M</value> >> </property> >> >> <property> >> <name>mapred.min.split.size</name> >> <value>65536</value> >> </property> >> >> <property> >> <name>dfs.replication</name> >> <value>3</value> >> </property> >> >> </configuration> >