https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/changing-temp-directory-in-sqoop-import/m-p/282410#M209980 <P>Hi,</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>You can use this tag "<SPAN>--temporary-rootdir" to make sure that the temporary data goes into this folder.</SPAN></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><SPAN>Example:-&nbsp;[example]<BR />sqoop import --target-dir /&lt;hdfs path&gt;/&lt;import_data_dir&gt; --temporary-rootdir /&lt;dfs path&gt;/&lt;tmp_dir&gt; ...</SPAN></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><SPAN>Regards</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Nitish</SPAN></P> Fri, 08 Nov 2019 04:59:48 GMT Khanna 2019-11-08T04:59:48Z