Yacine Belhoul, As per Apache Hadoop model we cannot create directories if the filename having / or : characters in it. HDFS Path elements MUST NOT contain the characters {'/', ':'} The only way is to replace (:) with %3A hadoop fs -mkdir /2017-09-28\ \12%3A00%3A09.0 If you do dynamic partition by time stamp field also hive stored these colon(:) replace with %3A hadoop directories. My dynamic partition time stamp columns are:- 2011-07-07 02:04:51.0 2011-07-07 02:04:52.0 2013-01-30 08:27:16.0 once i'm done with creating dynamic partitions for the table, if i list out the directories they are replace with %3A in place of (:) Hadoop directories for dynamic partitions: /apps/hive/warehouse/test_fac/dat=2011-07-07 02%3A04%3A51.0 /apps/hive/warehouse/test_fac/dat=2011-07-07 02%3A04%3A52.0 /apps/hive/warehouse/test_fac/dat=2013-01-30 08%3A27%3A16.0 Show partitions for dynamic partitioned table:- if you list the partitions that are in table hive shows those partitions with %3A as a replacement for colon(:) show partitions test_fac; +--------------------------------+--+ | partition | +--------------------------------+--+ | dat=2011-07-07 02%3A04%3A51.0 | | dat=2011-07-07 02%3A04%3A52.0 | | dat=2013-01-30 08%3A27%3A16.0 | +--------------------------------+--+ I tried to add paritition to the table alter table test_fac add partition(dat='2017-09-29 90:00:00'); still it replace colon(:) with %3A. show partitions test_fac; +--------------------------------+--+ | partition | +--------------------------------+--+ | dat=2017-09-29 90%3A00%3A00 | +--------------------------------+--+ but in local file system we can create directories with colon(:) characters in them Example:- [~]$ mkdir 2017-09-28\ 12\:00\:09 [~]$ ls [~]$ 2017-09-28 12:00:09 ... View more