R u using Cloudera manager? It would be easy to remove the node using that.
On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 11:20 PM, Hardik Pandya <smarty.ju...@gmail.com>wrote: > also you can exclude the data nodes from conf/mapred-site.xml > > dfs.hosts/dfs.hosts.exclude List of permitted/excluded DataNodes.If > necessary, use these files to control the list of allowable datanodes. > > > On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Hardik Pandya <smarty.ju...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> You can start/stop an Hadoop daemon manually on a machine via >> bin/hadoop-daemon.sh >> start/stop [namenode | secondarynamenode | datanode | jobtracker | >> tasktracker] >> >> >> On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 11:47 AM, navaz <navaz....@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> How to remove one of the slave node. ? >>> >>> I have a namenode ( master) and 3 datanode (slave) running. I would like >>> to remove one of the problematic datanode. How can i do this? >>> >>> Unfortunately i dont have access to that problematic data node. >>> >>> Thanks >>> Navaz >>> >>> >> >