The root scratch dir: /tmp/hive on HDFS should be writable. Current permissions are: rw-rw-rw- (on Windows)

Question

I am running Spark on Windows 7. When I use Hive, I see the following error

The root scratch dir: /tmp/hive on HDFS should be writable. Current permissions a         


        

Answer 1

Next solution worked on Windows for me:

• First, I defined HADOOP_HOME. It described in detail here
• Next, I did like Nishu Tayal, but with one difference:C:\temp\hadoop\bin\winutils.exe chmod 777 \tmp\hive

\tmp\hive is not local directory