The way to check a HDFS directory's size?

Question

I know du -sh in common Linux filesystems. But how to do that with HDFS?

Answer 1

hadoop version 2.3.33:

hadoop fs -dus  /path/to/dir  |   awk '{print $2/1024**3 " G"}' 

Answer 2

To get the size of the directory hdfs dfs -du -s -h /$yourDirectoryName can be used. hdfs dfsadmin -report can be used to see a quick cluster level storage report.

Answer 3

Command Should be hadoop fs -du -s -h \dirPath

• -du [-s] [-h] ... : Show the amount of space, in bytes, used by the files that match the specified file pattern.

• -s : Rather than showing the size of each individual file that matches the
  pattern, shows the total (summary) size.

• -h : Formats the sizes of files in a human-readable fashion rather than a number of bytes. (Ex MB/GB/TB etc)

  Note that, even without the -s option, this only shows size summaries one level deep into a directory.

  The output is in the form size name(full path)