title: Apache default Hive Warehouse path in HDFS
body: <p>I installed HIVE on CentOS 7 3-node cluster the first time for POC purpose. HIVE is installed inside a user(hduser1)'s root folder and specified in the .bashrc file.</p>
  
  <p>export HIVE_HOME=/home/hduser1/hive</p>
  
  <p>I also created an HDFS folder for HIVE warehouse, with the following commands.</p>
  
  <p>hadoop   fs -mkdir /user/hive/warehouse
  hadoop   fs -chmod g+w /user/hive/warehouse </p>
  
  <p>Everything works fine. After I created a table, I saw a file appearing in the warehouse folder. </p>
  
  <p>Here is my question - how does HIVE know about this warehouse path, considering that I did not add this path /user/hive/warehouse in any configuration file? </p>
  
  <p>I saw another person's installation, which created the Hive warehouse folder at /user/hive234/warehouse and that installation still worked. Does HIVE figure it out by some naming convention?</p>