https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/tmp-hbase-tablename-loaded-with-data-what-might-be-the/m-p/186660#M58896 <P>Sounds like the output of a MapReduce job that you ran. HBase does not store anything outside of the value of "hbase.rootdir" in hbase-site.xml. On HDP, this defaults to "/apps/hbase/data".</P><P>As long as you have no changed this configuration property, you can rest assured that HBase is not actively referring to files stored in "/tmp".</P> Tue, 04 Apr 2017 22:34:40 GMT elserj 2017-04-04T22:34:40Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/tmp-hbase-tablename-loaded-with-data-what-might-be-the/m-p/186659#M58895 <P>we observed there is folder with hbase table name is created under /tmp . there are _temporary folders , part-m files are there in those . what might be the create/storing data here ? Is there any data loss or any table corruption happens if we try to delete those temporary table directory ? </P> Tue, 04 Apr 2017 17:22:48 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/tmp-hbase-tablename-loaded-with-data-what-might-be-the/m-p/186659#M58895 srinivaspadala_ 2017-04-04T17:22:48Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/tmp-hbase-tablename-loaded-with-data-what-might-be-the/m-p/186660#M58896 <P>Sounds like the output of a MapReduce job that you ran. HBase does not store anything outside of the value of "hbase.rootdir" in hbase-site.xml. On HDP, this defaults to "/apps/hbase/data".</P><P>As long as you have no changed this configuration property, you can rest assured that HBase is not actively referring to files stored in "/tmp".</P> Tue, 04 Apr 2017 22:34:40 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/tmp-hbase-tablename-loaded-with-data-what-might-be-the/m-p/186660#M58896 elserj 2017-04-04T22:34:40Z