@diplompils  It is not necessary that file is lost if you are getting the output as false for recoverLease command. Usually file can't be deleted until it has lease acquired and not explicitly deleted using rm command.    You can try below- hdfs debug recoverLease -path <file> -retries 10 Or you may check - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-8576 ... View more