diff --git a/playbook/roles/hadoop-common/templates/hdfs-site.j2 b/playbook/roles/hadoop-common/templates/hdfs-site.j2
index 257190afb8c347f6cb5e1ae70c470a4d3a298474..8333e7120b7fd97d0984fc9bf3e58d89eeecc38b 100644
--- a/playbook/roles/hadoop-common/templates/hdfs-site.j2
+++ b/playbook/roles/hadoop-common/templates/hdfs-site.j2
@@ -1,4 +1,12 @@
 <configuration>
+	<property>
+		<name>dfs.name.dir</name>
+		<value>file:///home/hadoop/tmp</value>
+	</property>
+	<property>
+		<name>dfs.data.dir</name>
+		<value>file:///home/hadoop/tmp</value>
+	</property>
 	<property>
 		<name>dfs.replication</name>
 		<value>{{nbOfClusterDataNode}}</value>