https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/namenode-is-not-formatted/m-p/183900#M146058 <A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/10486/simrank.html" nodeid="10486">@Simran Kaur</A><P>Please try out the steps described in this support kb</P><P><A href="https://community.hortonworks.com/content/supportkb/49454/restarting-standby-namenode-fails-to-start-with-na.html" target="_blank">https://community.hortonworks.com/content/supportkb/49454/restarting-standby-namenode-fails-to-start-with-na.html</A></P> Sat, 01 Apr 2017 13:36:50 GMT rchoksi 2017-04-01T13:36:50Z