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Posted to common-user@hadoop.apache.org by Abdelrahman Kamel <ab...@gmail.com> on 2011/10/05 10:17:44 UTC

SafeModeException: Cannot delete . Name node is in safe mode.

Hi all,

I got this exception trying to delete a directory from HDFS.

hduser@hdmaster:/usr/local/hadoop$ *bin/hadoop dfs -rmr
/user/hduser/gutenberg-output*
rmr: org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.*SafeModeException: Cannot
delete /user/hduser/gutenberg-output. Name node is in safe mode.*

Could anyone help me get rid of it.
Thanks.


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Abdelrahman Kamel