HDFS Commands: Reference and Examples
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Truncate a file
I.e. reduce its size but don't delete it. This is useful to delete large log files, avoiding crashing applications that expect the file to exist.
$ hadoop fs -truncate -w 100 /path/to/file
Touch
It's called touchz in HDFS.
$ hadoop fs -touchz /path/to/file