How to check a HDFS directory size

Question

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?

Answer 1

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