# hive home ### hive home This is the HIVE\_HOME directory, in my example, HIVE\_HOME=/home/bigdata2/hive/hive pwd /home/bigdata2/hive/hive Append HIVE\_HOME and hive path to \~/.bashrc, recommend log out and log back in. export HIVE\_HOME=/home/bigdata2/hive/hive export PATH=$HIVE\_HOME/bin:$PATH After log out and log back in, need to create hdfs directory that will host HIVE tables: hdfs dfs -mkdir /tmp hdfs dfs -mkdir /user hdfs dfs -mkdir /user/hive hdfs dfs -mkdir /user/hive/warehouse hdfs dfs -chmod g+w /user/hive/warehouse hdfs dfs -chmod g+w /tmp --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://george-jen.gitbook.io/data-science-and-apache-spark/hive-home.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.