When you giving location give it as '/user/myfolder/items' hive know it is need to be store at HDFS which is define at $HADOOP_CONF_DIR/hdfs-site.xml.
Thanks, ./Piyush ________________________________ From: Ranjitha Chandrashekar [ranjitha...@hcl.com] Sent: Friday, April 05, 2013 3:16 PM To: user@hive.apache.org Subject: Error Creating External Table Hi When i try creating a external table to a text file on HDFS i get the following error. Could someone please let me know where I am going wrong. hive> create external table seq4 (item STRING) row format delimited fields terminated by '' STORED as TEXTFILE location 'hdfs://<host>:54310/user/myfolder/items'; FAILED: Error in metadata: MetaException(message:Got exception: org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RemoteException java.io.FileNotFoundException: Parent path is not a directory: /user/myfolder/items at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSDirectory.mkdirs(FSDirectory.java:944) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.mkdirsInternal(FSNamesystem.java:2068) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.mkdirs(FSNamesystem.java:2029) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.mkdirs(NameNode.java:817) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor109.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:616) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RPC$Server.call(RPC.java:563) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler$1.run(Server.java:1388) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler$1.run(Server.java:1384) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:416) at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1093) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler.run(Server.java:1382) ) FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask Thanks Ranjitha. ::DISCLAIMER:: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The contents of this e-mail and any attachment(s) are confidential and intended for the named recipient(s) only. E-mail transmission is not guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or may contain viruses in transmission. The e mail and its contents (with or without referred errors) shall therefore not attach any liability on the originator or HCL or its affiliates. Views or opinions, if any, presented in this email are solely those of the author and may not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of HCL or its affiliates. Any form of reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure, modification, distribution and / or publication of this message without the prior written consent of authorized representative of HCL is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify the sender immediately. Before opening any email and/or attachments, please check them for viruses and other defects. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE ====================== This email message and any attachments are for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message along with any attachments, from your computer system. If you are the intended recipient, please be advised that the content of this message is subject to access, review and disclosure by the sender's Email System Administrator.