Create directory in hadoop filesystem

shell hadoop hdfs command-line-interface

To leave safe mode, try below command since hadoop dfsadmin -safemode is deprecated in newer distribution of Hadoop:

 hdfs dfsadmin -safemode leave

By default, user's home directory in hdfs exists with '/user/hduser' not as /home/hduser'.

If you tried to create directory directly like below then it will be created like '/user/hduser/sampleDir'.

hadoop fs -mkdir /path/to/be/created

shell hadoop hdfs command-line-interface

Create a directory /user

hadoop fs -mkdir /user

then with your user name

hadoop fs -mkdir /user/yourusername

Now try to creating directory.

shell hadoop hdfs command-line-interface

On HDFS,

hdfs dfs -mkdir -p /this/is/a/new/directory

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