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Corrupted blocks on HDFS

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How to remove corrupted blocks from hdfs

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@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

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

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Expert Contributor
@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