rdd1.saveAsTextFile("/tmp/partition") //Writes 6 part files, one for each partition Partition 1 : 0 1 2 Partition 2 : 3 4 5 Partition 3 : 6 7 8 9 Partition 4 : 10 11 12 Partition 5 : 13 14 15 Partition 6 : 16 17 18 19