Where does Hive store files in HDFS?

Hive tables may not necessarily be stored in a warehouse (since you can create tables located anywhere on the HDFS).

You should use DESCRIBE FORMATTED <table_name> command.

hive -S -e "describe formatted <table_name> ;" | grep 'Location' | awk '{ print $NF }'

Please note that partitions may be stored in different places and to get the location of the alpha=foo/beta=bar partition you’d have to add partition(alpha="foo",beta="bar") after <table_name>.

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