HDP File Locations

Owned by Lester Martin
Last updated: Sept 04, 2015
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As the picture below dictates, there are major areas of the logical directory tree where Hadoop persists bits, config, logs and, of course, data.  The following table shows what directories are used by default when installing Hortonworks Data Platform.

TypeDirectoryNotes
Binaries/usr/hdp/current/SERVICENAMEpreviously was at /usr/lib/SERVICENAME
Configuration/etc/SERVICENAME/conf 
Logs/var/log/SERVICENAME