https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Understand-the-dfsclusterhealth-informations/m-p/31470#M7187 <P>I believe that's because of replication. 2.21 TB refers to the amount of space taken up by the data you've stored plus the space taken up by all the replicas of that data. 1.88 TB refers to the amount of data you can store, accounting for the fact that HDFS will need space to make replicas.</P> Wed, 02 Sep 2015 14:25:31 GMT Sean 2015-09-02T14:25:31Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Understand-the-dfsclusterhealth-informations/m-p/31459#M7186 <P>Hello,</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>The dfsclusterhealth view of the namenodes is givin me the folowing informations:</P><PRE>Total Files And Directories : 64340 Configured Capacity : <STRONG>1.88 TB</STRONG> DFS Used : <STRONG>2.21 TB</STRONG> Non DFS Used : 120.56 GB DFS Remaining : 674.13 GB DFS Used% : 117.57% DFS Remaining% : 34.96%</PRE><P>How can the DFS used be bigger than the configured capacity?</P><P>What is the difference?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Thank you,</P> Wed, 02 Sep 2015 11:23:37 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Understand-the-dfsclusterhealth-informations/m-p/31459#M7186 AlinaGHERMAN 2015-09-02T11:23:37Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Understand-the-dfsclusterhealth-informations/m-p/31470#M7187 <P>I believe that's because of replication. 2.21 TB refers to the amount of space taken up by the data you've stored plus the space taken up by all the replicas of that data. 1.88 TB refers to the amount of data you can store, accounting for the fact that HDFS will need space to make replicas.</P> Wed, 02 Sep 2015 14:25:31 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Understand-the-dfsclusterhealth-informations/m-p/31470#M7187 Sean 2015-09-02T14:25:31Z