This problem looks to be duplicate of solution proposed here,  https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Problem-starting-a-nodemanager/m-p/40657/highlight/true#M39880  Other ways, you can configure Hadoop to use a different directory for its temporary files. This can be done by setting the hadoop.tmp.dir configuration property in the Hadoop configuration files (core-site.xml).     ... View more