Hi All, This is a very simple operation intend to be very confusing as I saw in other posts I read. What you will need to add storage to hadoop is a new disk, mounted on a new volume (directory) After you got a new disk, ask you system administrator to mount him on a new desired directory: [root@RHEL7datanode1 ~]# mkdir -p /hadoop/add_disk/ [root@RHEL7datanode1 ~]# chown -R hdfs:hadoop /hadoop [root@RHEL7datanode1 ~]# su - hdfs now you need to change conf file and add this new folder to the hdfs-site.xml vi /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/hadoop/conf/hdfs-site.xml <property> <name>dfs.datanode.data.dir</name> <value>/data2/hdp,/data1/hdp, /hadoop/add_disk </value> </property> Restart datanode: [hdfs@RHEL7datanode1 ~]$ /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/hadoop/sbin/hadoop-daemon.sh stop datanode stopping datanode [hdfs@RHEL7datanode1 ~]$ /usr/hdp/2.3.0.0-2557/hadoop/sbin/hadoop-dae...
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