hdfs --help

Usage: hdfs [OPTIONS] SUBCOMMAND [SUBCOMMAND OPTIONS]

  OPTIONS is none or any of:

--buildpaths                       attempt to add class files from build tree
--config dir                       Hadoop config directory
--daemon (start|status|stop)       operate on a daemon
--debug                            turn on shell script debug mode
--help                             usage information
--hostnames list[,of,host,names]   hosts to use in worker mode
--hosts filename                   list of hosts to use in worker mode
--loglevel level                   set the log4j level for this command
--workers                          turn on worker mode

  SUBCOMMAND is one of:


    Admin Commands:

cacheadmin           configure the HDFS cache
crypto               configure HDFS encryption zones
debug                run a Debug Admin to execute HDFS debug commands
dfsadmin             run a DFS admin client
dfsrouteradmin       manage Router-based federation
ec                   run a HDFS ErasureCoding CLI
fsck                 run a DFS filesystem checking utility
fsImageValidation    run FsImageValidation to check an fsimage
haadmin              run a DFS HA admin client
jmxget               get JMX exported values from NameNode or DataNode.
oev                  apply the offline edits viewer to an edits file
oiv_legacy           apply the offline fsimage viewer to a legacy fsimage
oiv                  apply the offline fsimage viewer to an fsimage
storagepolicies      list/get/set/satisfyStoragePolicy block storage policies

    Client Commands:

classpath            prints the class path needed to get the hadoop jar and the required libraries
dfs                  run a filesystem command on the file system
envvars              display computed Hadoop environment variables
fetchdt              fetch a delegation token from the NameNode
getconf              get config values from configuration
groups               get the groups which users belong to
lsSnapshot           list all snapshots for a snapshottable directory
lsSnapshottableDir   list all snapshottable dirs owned by the current user
snapshotDiff         diff two snapshots of a directory or diff the current directory contents with a snapshot
version              print the version

    Daemon Commands:

balancer             run a cluster balancing utility
datanode             run a DFS datanode
dfsrouter            run the DFS router
diskbalancer         Distributes data evenly among disks on a given node
journalnode          run the DFS journalnode
mover                run a utility to move block replicas across storage types
namenode             run the DFS namenode
nfs3                 run an NFS version 3 gateway
portmap              run a portmap service
secondarynamenode    run the DFS secondary namenode
sps                  run external storagepolicysatisfier
zkfc                 run the ZK Failover Controller daemon

SUBCOMMAND may print help when invoked w/o parameters or with -h.

See also

• hdfs datanode
• HDFS, hdfs, hdfs --help