topic Re: how to delete a folder in databricks mnt? in Data Engineering

how to delete a folder in databricks mnt?

nmud19 — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 11:53:14 GMT

I have a folder at location dbfs:/mnt/temp

I need to delete this folder. I tried using

%fs rm mnt/temp

dbutils.fs.rm("mnt/temp")

Could you please help me out with what I am doing wrong?

Re: how to delete a folder in databricks mnt?

rlgarris — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 16:29:20 GMT

Hi nmud19,

What error did you get? Can you paste a stack trace?

You may need to make the path absolute and set recursive to true.

dbutils.fs.rm("/mnt/temp", true)

Re: how to delete a folder in databricks mnt?

JosiahYoder — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 21:38:33 GMT

Or, to be more readable:

dbutils.fs.rm(fileprefix+".tmp",recurse=true)

Re: how to delete a folder in databricks mnt?

rockssk — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 18:33:42 GMT

dbutils.fs.rm("/mnt/temp",True)

The command above works in runtime 5.1 with python3

Re: how to delete a folder in databricks mnt?

Anonymous — Tue, 07 May 2019 23:15:43 GMT

Since you're deleting a folder in the

/mnt

directory, I assume it was made when you mounted a data source. If that's the case, you can delete the folder using

dbutils.fs.unmount("/mnt/temp/")

Re: how to delete a folder in databricks mnt?

StefanAlbrecht — Tue, 23 Jul 2019 08:18:03 GMT

I found the easier way out. It was getting this error all the time: TypeError: '/mnt/adls2/demo/target/' has the wrong type - class bool is expected. Googling helped a lot 😉

Remove files from directory after uploading in Databricks using research paper help in copying files using dbutils

Re: how to delete a folder in databricks mnt?

RoyLiga — Sun, 08 Dec 2019 12:28:26 GMT

try LongPathTool program

Re: how to delete a folder in databricks mnt?

SaipradeepSaipr — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 16:15:10 GMT

how do I delete multiple folders within a mount point ???

Re: how to delete a folder in databricks mnt?

amitca71 — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 08:16:10 GMT

use this (last raw should not be indented twice...):

def delete_mounted_dir(dirname):

files=dbutils.fs.ls(dirname)

for f in files:

if f.isDir():

delete_mounted_dir(f.path)

dbutils.fs.rm(f.path, recurse=True)