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Hadoop: “Format aborted” Error Message

When I tried to start the namenode, it gave me an error informing that my namenode dir is not formatted. Fair enough but whenever I tried to format it, it used to get aborted. I checked all the configs, user, group, permissions and what not. I read and reread the docs to figure out if I am missing anything but no luck.

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