I think he means to allocate more disk space to your VM. Assuming the VM has space, you can follow Aaron's steps to expand the HDFS capacity.
On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 2:30 AM Syed Hammad Tahir <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry for this noobish question. I didnt understand "If you can add more > disks to your node then do so". You mean add physical drive in the > machine? I already have plenty of free space. Just dont know how to expand > hdfs over it > > > On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 12:03 PM, Aaron Harris <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> Syed, >> >> >> Check what you have set for the dfs.datanode.data.dir parameter in HDFS >> config. >> >> If you can add more disks to your node then do so and update the above >> parameter so it references them. >> >> Your other option is to add a complete new node, then install the >> datanode service on it through Ambari. >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Aaron >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* Syed Hammad Tahir <[email protected]> >> *Sent:* Thursday, November 16, 2017 5:47:49 AM >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Subject:* HDFS SIze >> >> HI, >> >> I there anyway I could alot more space to hdfs? I am redeploying single >> node based ambari Metron cluster >> >> Regards. >> > > -- Jon
