Deleting file/folder from Hadoop

Question

I'm running an EMR Activity inside a Data Pipeline analyzing log files and I get the following error when my Pipeline fails:

Exception in thread "main" org.apache.hadoop.mapred.FileAlreadyExistsException: Output directory hdfs://10.208.42.127:9000/home/hadoop/temp-output-s3copy already exists
    at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.FileOutputFormat.checkOutputSpecs(FileOutputFormat.java:121)
    at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient$2.run(JobClient.java:944)
    at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient$2.run(JobClient.java:905)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:396)
    at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1132)
    at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient.submitJobInternal(JobClient.java:905)
    at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient.submitJob(JobClient.java:879)
    at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient.runJob(JobClient.java:1316)
    at com.valtira.datapipeline.stream.CloudFrontStreamLogProcessors.main(CloudFrontStreamLogProcessors.java:216)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
    at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:187)

How can I delete that folder from Hadoop?

Answer 1

When you say delete from Hadoop, you really mean delete from HDFS.

To delete something from HDFS do one of the two

From the command line:

• deprecated way:

hadoop dfs -rmr hdfs://path/to/file

• new way (with hadoop 2.4.1) :

hdfs dfs -rm -r hdfs://path/to/file

Or from java:

FileSystem fs = FileSystem.get(getConf());
fs.delete(new Path("path/to/file"), true); // delete file, true for recursive 

Answer 2

To delete a file from hdfs you can use below given command :

hadoop fs -rm -r -skipTrash /path_to_file/file_name

To delete a folder from hdfs you can use below given command :

hadoop fs -rm -r -skipTrash /folder_name

You need to use -skipTrash option otherwise error will be prompted.

Answer 3

With Scala:

val fs:FileSystem = FileSystem.get(new URI(filePath), sc.hadoopConfiguration);
fs.delete(new Path(filePath), true) // true for recursive

sc is the SparkContext

Answer 4

To delete a file from hdfs use the command: hadoop fs -rm -r /FolderName

Answer 5

I contacted AWS support and it seemed that the problem was that the log files I was analyzing were very big and that created an issue with memory. I added to my pipeline definition "masterInstanceType" : "m1.xlarge" in the EMRCluster section and it worked.

Answer 6

From the command line:

 hadoop fs -rm -r /folder

Answer 7

I use hadoop 2.6.0, the commande line 'hadoop fs -rm -r fileName.hib' works fine for deleting any hib file on my hdfs file sys