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

Use the latest version of "winutils.exe" and try. https://github.com/steveloughran/winutils/blob/master/hadoop-2.7.1/bin/winutils.exe