HDFS Commands: Reference and Examples

HDFS Commands: Reference and Examples

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Truncate a file

I.e. reduce its size but don't delete it. This is useful to delete large log files, avoiding crashing applications that expect the file to exist.

$ hadoop fs -truncate -w 100 /path/to/file

Touch

It's called touchz in HDFS.

$ hadoop fs -touchz /path/to/file