[machine1] ~ > df -kh /export/hdfs/ Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on fuse 4.1P 642T 3.5P 21% /export/hdfs [machine1] ~ > ls /export/hdfs/ home tmp Trash user usr var These projects (enumerated below) allow HDFS to be mounted (on most flavors of Unix) as a standard file system using the mount command. Once mounted, the user can operate on an instance of hdfs using standard Unix utilities