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Directory Layout

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Directory Layout

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The directory layout of an installation is as follows:

Type	Description	Default Location	Setting
home	Home of elasticsearch installation.		`path.home`
bin	Binary scripts including `elasticsearch` to start a node.	`{path.home}/bin`
conf	Configuration files including `elasticsearch.yml`	`{path.home}/config`	`path.conf`
data	The location of the data files of each index / shard allocated on the node. Can hold multiple locations.	`{path.home}/data`	`path.data`
logs	Log files location.	`{path.home}/logs`	`path.logs`
plugins	Plugin files location. Each plugin will be contained in a subdirectory.	`{path.home}/plugins`	`path.plugins`
repo	Shared file system repository locations. Can hold multiple locations. A file system repository can be placed in to any subdirectory of any directory specified here.	`empty`	`path.repo`

Multiple data paths may be specified, in order to spread data across multiple disks or locations, but all of the files from a single shard will be written to the same path. This can be configured as follows:

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path.data: /mnt/first,/mnt/second
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Or  in an array format:

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path.data: ["/mnt/first", "/mnt/second"]
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To stripe shards across multiple disks, please use a RAID driver instead.

Default Paths

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Below are the default paths that elasticsearch will use, if not explicitly changed.

deb and rpm

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Type	Description	Location Debian/Ubuntu	Location RHEL/CentOS
home	Home of elasticsearch installation.	`/usr/share/elasticsearch`	`/usr/share/elasticsearch`
bin	Binary scripts including `elasticsearch` to start a node.	`/usr/share/elasticsearch/bin`	`/usr/share/elasticsearch/bin`
conf	Configuration files `elasticsearch.yml` and `logging.yml`.	`/etc/elasticsearch`	`/etc/elasticsearch`
conf	Environment variables including heap size, file descriptors.	`/etc/default/elasticsearch`	`/etc/sysconfig/elasticsearch`
data	The location of the data files of each index / shard allocated on the node.	`/var/lib/elasticsearch/data`	`/var/lib/elasticsearch`
logs	Log files location	`/var/log/elasticsearch`	`/var/log/elasticsearch`
plugins	Plugin files location. Each plugin will be contained in a subdirectory.	`/usr/share/elasticsearch/plugins`	`/usr/share/elasticsearch/plugins`

zip and tar.gz

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Type	Description	Location
home	Home of elasticsearch installation	`{extract.path}`
bin	Binary scripts including `elasticsearch` to start a node	`{extract.path}/bin`
conf	Configuration files `elasticsearch.yml` and `logging.yml`	`{extract.path}/config`
data	The location of the data files of each index / shard allocated on the node	`{extract.path}/data`
logs	Log files location	`{extract.path}/logs`
plugins	Plugin files location. Each plugin will be contained in a subdirectory	`{extract.path}/plugins`

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