copyFromLocal: `/user/hduser/gutenberg': No such file or directory

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Solved it by using the command like:

hduser@ubuntu:/usr/local/hadoop$ hdfs dfs -mkdir -p /user/hduser

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Hadoop 2.4.1

hadoop fs -mkdir -p /user/hduser/sample

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For Hadoop 2.6.0 :

Usage: hadoop fs -mkdir paths

Example:
hadoop/bin fs -mkdir /user/hduser