Format the namenode
Next step is to format the namenode, to create a Hadoop distributed file system (HDFS).
- Open a new cygwin window.
- Then execute the following commands
cd hadoop-0.19.1
mkdir logs
bin/hadoop namenode -format
Format the namenode - The last command would run for some time, and then will produce the output similar to the one shown below:
Hadoop Distributed File System created.Now that the filesystem has been created you can proceed to the next step.
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