Thanks @Karthik Palanisamy for sharing this article. I have done the same activity without initializing shared edits or stopping the entire HDFS service. Below are the steps which I have followed. Can you please elaborate why we need to re-initialize the shared edits and correct me if the steps I have followed are not appropriate one. 1. Change the settings in Ambari for journal node edits directory(dfs.journalnode.edits.dir) from /hadoop/hdfs/journal/ to /data/1/journal/ 2. Don't restart any services immediately. 3. Stop the journal node on NODE1. a. SSH to NODE1 b. sudo mkdir -p /data/1/journal c. sudo chown hdfs:hadoop /data/1/journal d. sudo rsync -ahvAX /hadoop/hdfs/journal/* /data/1/journal/ Start the journal node on NODE1 4. Repeat step 3 for remaining two journal nodes NODE2 and NODE3. 5. Restart the required services accordingly (Rolling or All at once) ... View more