Free Online Certification Courses – Learn Today. Lead Tomorrow. › Forums › Apache Hadoop › What happen to existing data if we change block size in HDFS? This topic has 1 reply, 1 voice, and was last updated 5 years, 7 months ago by DataFlair Team. Viewing 1 reply thread Author Posts September 20, 2018 at 1:53 pm #5003 DataFlair TeamSpectator What happen to existing data if we change block size in HDFS? September 20, 2018 at 1:53 pm #5004 DataFlair TeamSpectator If you change the block size in hdfs-site.xml configuration file, it won’t affect the existing data which is already stored in HDFS. Author Posts Viewing 1 reply thread You must be logged in to reply to this topic. Log In Username: Password: Keep me signed in Signup / Login with Google Log In