Corrupted blocks on HDFS

[#1]

How to remove corrupted blocks from hdfs

[#2]

@Gulshad Ansari

hdfs fs -rm /path/to/file/with/permanently/missing/blocks

[#3 · Accepted solution]

@Gulshad Ansari: Please check http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19205057/how-to-fix-corrupt-hadoop-hdfs. This has a clear tutorial on how to get the corrupted block. Once you locate it,

it is a simple

hdfs fs -rm

command to remove the corrupted block