How to check a HDFS directory size

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Hi Guys,

I am new to Hadoop. I have created some directories in the cluster. I want to check the size of the directory. how can I do that?

Oct 5, 2020 in Big Data Hadoop by akhtar
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Hi@akhtar,

You can check the size of the Hadoop directory. Hadoop has command in its filesystem that you can use as shown below.

$ hadoop fs -du -s -h /path/to/dir
answered Oct 5, 2020 by MD
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