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

The main reason is you started the spark at wrong directory. please create folders in D://tmp/hive (give full permissions) and start your spark in D: drive D:> spark-shell

now it will work.. :)