How to start HDFS on Spark Standalone

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Hi ,

I am a newbie on Spark.I wanted to know how to start and verify if HDFS has
started on Spark stand alone.

Env -
Windows 7 - 64 bit
Spark 1.4.1 With Hadoop 2.6

Using Scala Shell - spark-shell


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Thanks,
Harry