The etc/hadoop/core-site.xml fs.default.name is set, the corresponding setting in aether.prop is hdfsconffs= (see here). Then there are no more corresponding settings, the etc/hadoop/hdfs-site.xml got dfs.name.dir, dfs.data.dir, fs.checkpoint.dir and etc/hadoop/mapred-site.xml mostly contains repeated values, like the settings mapred.job.tracker, mapred.local.dir, mapreduce.cluster.local.dir. Hadoop is started with (the now deprecated)
./sbin/start-all.sh &