Mohit, Take a look at this article: http://www.kernelhardware.org/how-should-run-fsck-linux-file-system/
From: Mohit Vadhera [mailto:project.linux.p...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 1:52 PM To: <user@hadoop.apache.org> Subject: hadoop filesystem corrupt Hi, While moving the data my data folder didn't move successfully. Now while running the FSCK i get the file system is corrupt. Can anybody help me at the earliest please. I shall be thankful $ sudo - hdfs hadoop fsck / ----------------------------- ------------------------- ...Status: CORRUPT Total size: 739698399117 B Total dirs: 2179 Total files: 9064 (Files currently being written: 1) Total blocks (validated): 17060 (avg. block size 43358640 B) ******************************** CORRUPT FILES: 4 CORRUPT BLOCKS: 4 ******************************** Minimally replicated blocks: 17060 (100.0 %) Over-replicated blocks: 0 (0.0 %) Under-replicated blocks: 232 (1.3599062 %) Mis-replicated blocks: 0 (0.0 %) Default replication factor: 1 Average block replication: 1.0 Corrupt blocks: 4 Missing replicas: 2088 (10.904533 %) Number of data-nodes: 1 Number of racks: 1 FSCK ended at Fri Mar 01 13:56:41 EST 2013 in 509 milliseconds The filesystem under path '/' is CORRUPT