Hi Yusaku,

Thank you for your reply, unfortunately that's not the problem - the new
slave node has a single drive, so is using the default data directory path.
I'll post this to the Ambari list.

Regards,
Charles

On 16 September 2014 23:12, Yusaku Sako <yus...@hortonworks.com> wrote:

> Charles,
>
> If the newly added slave node has an extra disk that the other nodes
> don't have, then you will have to do the following on the Ambari Web
> UI so that "dfs.data.dir" is reflected to include this extra drive for
> that node:
> * Go to Services > HDFS > Configs
> * Click on "Manage Config Groups" link
> * Create a new HDFS Configuration Group (name it appropriately), add
> the slave host in question to that group, and Save.
> * In the list of configs for HDFS, you will see "DataNode directories"
> with the current directories set up for DataNodes for all other hosts.
> * Click on the "+" next to "DataNode directories" and list out all the
> drives for this new DataNode.
> * Save the configuration changes.
> * Restart the DataNode.
> * Ambari (and HDFS) should start reflecting the added disk space.
>
> I hope this solves your problem.
>
> FYI, there's an Ambari-specific mailing list at u...@ambari.apache.org
> that you can subscribe by sending an email to
> user-subscr...@ambari.apache.org.
>
> Thanks,
> Yusaku
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 5:28 AM, Charles Robertson
> <charles.robert...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've added a new slave node to my cluster with a (single) larger disk
> size
> > (100Gb) than on the other nodes. However, Amabri is reporting a total of
> 8.6
> > Gb disk space. lsblk correctly reports the disk size.
> >
> > Does anyone why this might be? As I understand things you need to tell
> HDFS
> > how much space *not* to use, and it will use what it needs from the rest.
> >
> > (BTW this is not the same data node in my other question on this list,
> > "Cannot start DataNode after adding new volume.")
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Charles
>
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