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

You don't have to fix the permission of /tmp/hive directory yourself (like some of the answers suggested). winutils can do that for you. Download the appropriate version of winutils from https://github.com/steveloughran/winutils and move it to spark's bin directory (e. x. C:\opt\spark\spark-2.2.0-bin-hadoop2.6\bin). That will fix it.