# Change where logs are stored
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-where-logs-are-stored/21592
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [January 12, 2015, 8:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-where-logs-are-stored/21592 "2015-01-12T20:15:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Taylor\_Wood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Taylor_Wood)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2015, 8:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-where-logs-are-stored/21592/1 "2015-01-12T20:15:28Z")
I ran into an issue where logs are logging to the / and not the /data
partition we setup for storing logs.
df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vda1 24G 19G 4.1G 83% /
tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev/shm
/dev/vdb1 99G 60M 94G 1% /data
This is probably an easy question for some, so hopefully I can get a reply
quickly. How do I save the incoming logs from logstash and store them on
the /data partition? I have tried making a change in the elasticsearch.yml
to make the path.logs point to the /data partition however elasticsearch
did not work correctly after.
[root@syslog1 elasticsearch]# cat /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml
path.data: /etc/elasticsearch
path.work: /etc/elasticsearch
path.logs: /var/log/elasticsearch/logs
# path.logs: /data/elasticsearch/logs
path.conf: /etc/elasticsearch
Any advice is appreciated.
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### Author:  [@oreno](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/oreno)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2015, 5:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-where-logs-are-stored/21592/2 "2015-01-13T17:22:45Z")
The path.logs set the location in which the elasticsearch application logs will be stored at.
For setting where the logstash events will go to (index data), you need to set the path.data
i.e:
path.data: /data
Hope that helps.
Oren
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 12:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-where-logs-are-stored/21592/3 "2017-07-06T00:39:17Z")