HDFS error put: `input': No such file or directory

Question

I have installed hadoop 2.6.0 and I'm playing around with it. I'm trying the Pseudo-distributed setup and I'm following the instructions on http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/current/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-common/SingleCluster.html#Execution I'm stuck at the 5th step i.e. when I run the command

  bin/hdfs dfs -put etc/hadoop input

I get the below error.

15/02/02 00:35:49 WARN util.NativeCodeLoader: Unable to load native-hadoop library for your platform... using builtin-java classes where applicable
put: `input': No such file or directory

Why am I getting this error? How can I resolve it?

Answer 1

In addition to what Ashrith wrote -p can also be added, just in case the directory is not yet created.

bin/hadoop fs -mkdir -p /path/to/hdfs/dir

Hope this helps someone else.

Answer 2

You are getting the error, because there is no such directory specified in the path. Please take a look at my answer to a similar question which explains how hadoop interprets relative path's.

Make sure you create the directory first using:

bin/hadoop fs -mkdir input

and then try to re-execute the command -put.