Hadoop on Windows: How to Browse the Hadoop Filesystem?

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This Blog post applies to Microsoft® HDInsight Preview for a windows machine. In this Blog Post, we’ll see how you can browse the HDFS (Hadoop Filesystem)?

1. I am assuming Hadoop Services are working without issues on your machine.

2. Now, Can you see the Hadoop Name Node Status Icon on your desktop? Yes? Great! Open it (via Browser)

3. Here’s what you’ll see:

Hadoop File System Browse

4. Can you see the “Browse the filesystem” link? click on it. You’ll see:

hadoop file system name node status windows

5. I’ve used the /user/data lately, so Let me browse to see what’s inside this directory:

user data hadoop sqoop hive mapreduce

6. You can also type in the location in the check box that says Goto

7. If you’re on command line, you can do so via the command:

hadoop fs -ls /

hadoop command line list all files system

And if you want to browse files inside a particular directory:

hadoop command line sqoop mapreduce hdfs file system

Official Resource:

HDFS File System Shell Guide

Conclusion

In this post, we saw how to browse Hadoop File system via Hadoop Command Line & Hadoop Name Node Status

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