Hi Phil,

the size of the files in the Elasticsearch data directory depends on the 
amount of data indexed by Elasticsearch. If you only changed the data.path 
setting and didn't copy the old index files, the data directory will only 
contain documents indexed from that time on.


Cheers,
Jochen

On Wednesday, 6 January 2016 22:39:05 UTC+1, Phil Bailey wrote:
>
> Hi Jochen 
>
> Again many thanks for your reply, my goal really is for all big files to 
> be on the 2TB hard drive so we dont fill up the system disk, i have edited 
> the elasticsearch.yml file with the below and mounted the 2TB disk to the 
> media folder point.
>
> Looking at the logs all seems to be now working, just one thing the file 
> size doesnt seem much bigger then a few megabytes, is the elasticsearch.yml 
> file the only config file that needs editing?  Just feel im missing 
> something
>
>  ----------------------------------- Paths 
> ------------------------------------
>
> #
>
> # Path to directory where to store the data (separate multiple locations 
> by comma):
>
> #
>
> path.data: /media/loggingdrive
>
> #
>
> # Path to log files:
>
> #
>
> # path.logs: /path/to/logs
> #
>

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