Not able to find HDFS directory on my system

Question

I want to copy a file from local file system to HDFS so the command I used is

hadoop dfs -copyFromLocal <local-dir> <hdfs-dir>
In this command I don't know my hdfs-dir.

I saw somewhere on internet that I should run the below command:

 hdfs dfs -ls
and I got the following output

-rw-r--r--   3 user1 hdfs  127162942 2016-04-01 19:47 .
I checked hdfs-site.xml, I found following configuration -

<property>
      <name>dfs.datanode.data.dir</name>
      <value>/hadoop/hdfs/data</value>
      <final>true</final>
</property>
I tried to run following command but it gives error -

[root@sandbox try]# hdfs dfs -copyFromLocal sample.csv /hadoop/hdfs/data
copyFromLocal: `/hadoop/hdfs/data': No such file or directory

Can anyone tell me how can I find my HDFS directory?

Answer 1

I guess you didn't understand it correctly

dfs.datanode.data.dir, is where you want to store your data blocks

If you type hdfs dfs -ls / you will get list of directories in hdfs. 

Then you can transfer files from local file system to hdfs using -copyFromLocal or -put to a particular directory or using -mkdir you can create new directory.