@Tech Guy Please take a look at this post. You are getting a "permission denied"-error because you are trying to access a folder using "root" user that is owned by the hdfs-user and the permissions do not allow write access from others. Change owners of / to root. sudo su - hdfs then hdfs dfs -chown -R root / Or if you don't want to change the permissions, launch hive using hdfs use sudo su - hdfs then run hive. no more permission issue.
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