I seem to be having the same problem but i am not able to change the file permissions.     drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 32768 Jan 18 04:35 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 32768 Jan 16 22:53 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 321 Jan 16 22:53 fsimage_0000000000000000000 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 62 Jan 16 22:53 fsimage_0000000000000000000.md5 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2 Jan 16 22:53 seen_txid -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jan 18 04:35 test -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 203 Jan 16 22:53 VERSION chown: changing ownership of ‘fsimage_0000000000000000000’: Operation not permitted chown: changing ownership of ‘fsimage_0000000000000000000.md5’: Operation not permitted chown: changing ownership of ‘seen_txid’: Operation not permitted chown: changing ownership of ‘test’: Operation not permitted chown: changing ownership of ‘VERSION’: Operation not permitted [root@hd-master-1 current]# note that I am root trying this.  This is a default download of cloudera manager 5.9.1 install with the basic hadoop package running on centos.  no luck. ... View more