Re: how to delete a folder in databricks mnt?

nmud19 · ‎09-08-2016

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?

rlgarris · ‎09-09-2016

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)

JosiahYoder · ‎07-27-2017

Or, to be more readable:

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

rockssk · ‎02-14-2019

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

The command above works in runtime 5.1 with python3

Anonymous · ‎05-07-2019

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/")

StefanAlbrecht · ‎07-23-2019

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 😉

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RoyLiga · ‎12-08-2019

try LongPathTool program

SaipradeepSaipr · ‎10-28-2020

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

amitca71 · ‎11-30-2020

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)