Introduction

hdfs dfsadmin -report outputs a brief report on the overall HDFS filesystem. It’s a userful command to quickly view how much disk is available, how many datanodes are running, and so on.

Command

Run the command with sudo -u hdfs prefixed to ensure you don’t get a permission denied error. CDH4 runs the namenode as the hdfs user by default. However if you have changed the

sudo -u hdfs hdfs dfsadmin -report

You will see output similar to:


Configured Capacity: 247241674752 (230.26 GB)
Present Capacity: 221027041280 (205.85 GB)
DFS Remaining: 221026717696 (205.85 GB)
DFS Used: 323584 (316 KB)
DFS Used%: 0%
Under replicated blocks: 0
Blocks with corrupt replicas: 0
Missing blocks: 0

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Datanodes available: 1 (1 total, 0 dead)

Live datanodes:
Name: 127.0.0.1:50010 (localhost)
Hostname: freshstart
Decommission Status : Normal
Configured Capacity: 247241674752 (230.26 GB)
DFS Used: 323584 (316 KB)
Non DFS Used: 26214633472 (24.41 GB)
DFS Remaining: 221026717696 (205.85 GB)
DFS Used%: 0%
DFS Remaining%: 89.4%
Last contact: Sat Jul 14 18:07:18 PDT 2012

Depricated Command

hadoop dfsadmin -report is a deprecated command. If you enter hadoop dfsadmin -report, you will see the report with the following note at the top of the output.


DEPRECATED: Use of this script to execute hdfs command is deprecated.
Instead use the hdfs command for it.


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