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Does formatting the HDFS filesystem remove my data?

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Hello

I'm starting to learn Hadoop.

If I want to format the HDFS filesystem I need to execute
Code:

bin/hadoop namenode -format
Does it mean that it will format my filesystem, losing everything I have there?
Or will it just create a kind of big "virtual file" on top of the local filesystem?
Where can I get more info about this?

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