to my knowledge this is all temporary data. All the data related to your tables is stored on the location which you can get with "desc formatted <table_name>"
this is a temporary hive storage place. If you kill the job in between, this data in /tmp/ is left as stale data On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:35 AM, hadoop hive <hadooph...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > i Have some question like > > in my tmp folder on hdfs i have a user called hadoop whose having much > space, i need to free this space so please help me out. > > * > /tmp/hive-hadoop/hive_2012-03-13_04-32-14_701_8751021191431391338/-ext-10002/ > * > > Is it part of data stored in hdfs or its just a temporary data , which > left after killing queries. > > > regards > Vikas Srivastava > > > -- Nitin Pawar
