Limit ls to few, I mean hdfs dfs -ls /tmp/hive/hive/14* The directory under is of zero bytes drwx------ - hive hdfs 0 2017-09-04 17:10 /tmp/hive/hive/149e8d6a-ad2a-433e-87be-6cb5b27e2b7b/_tmp_space.db Find out older one and start purging them manually till you get a breather !!!. After that get permission to implement Automatic approach
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