diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/DFSOutputStream.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/DFSOutputStream.java
index dc88e08991c..0f8279943d2 100755
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/DFSOutputStream.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/DFSOutputStream.java
@@ -811,7 +811,7 @@ public class DFSOutputStream extends FSOutputSummer
         try {
           if (retries == 0) {
             throw new IOException("Unable to close file because the last block"
-                + " does not have enough number of replicas.");
+                + last + " does not have enough number of replicas.");
           }
           retries--;
           Thread.sleep(sleeptime);