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Ravi Phulari resolved HDFS-123. ------------------------------- Resolution: Fixed This is very old Jira . Verified if this issue still exits . {code} statepick-lm:Hadoop rphulari$ bin/hadoop fs -ls Found 2 items -rw-r--r-- 1 rphulari supergroup 0 2009-07-10 19:36 /user/rphulari/bt -rw-r--r-- 1 rphulari supergroup 0 2009-07-10 12:07 /user/rphulari/t statepick-lm:Hadoop rphulari$ bin/hadoop fs -mv /no/Such/File /someFile mv: /no/Such/File: No such file or directory {code} Looks like this issue is fixed , Closing this issue as it is not reproducible anymore . Please reopen if you see this issue again. > dfs "Rename failed" doesn't give reason if source doesn't exist > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-123 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-123 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Michael Bieniosek > > If I run > hadoop fs -mv /no/such/file /blah > I get the error: mv: Rename failed /no/such/file > But in the namenode log, it says > 2008-06-10 21:17:37,883 WARN org.apache.hadoop.dfs.StateChange: DIR* > FSDirectory.unprotectedRenameTo: failed to rename /no/such/file to /blah > because source does not exist > It would be nice if the fs shell also gave the informative error. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.