# Changing logstash location to a different drive on Windows **URL:** \ **Category:** Logstash\ **Created:** [June 17, 2016, 2:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/changing-logstash-location-to-a-different-drive-on-windows/53168 "2016-06-17T14:15:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![George\_Nussbaum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/dbc845/32.png) [@George\_Nussbaum](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/George_Nussbaum)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 2:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/changing-logstash-location-to-a-different-drive-on-windows/53168/1 "2016-06-17T14:15:10Z")
Hello, I just started using the ELK stack so I'm very new and trying to figure it out. One question that was asked by my manager is if there is a way to have logging live on a different drive than the local drive as our assumption is it will get very large and we don't want that happening on the local drive. Is there a way to do this or am I incorrect in my assumption about large data locally? ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2016, 1:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/changing-logstash-location-to-a-different-drive-on-windows/53168/2 "2016-06-18T01:25:10Z")
LS doesn't store anything locally - unless you use a file output or similar. Are you talking about the data that is being stored by ES? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 4:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/changing-logstash-location-to-a-different-drive-on-windows/53168/3 "2017-07-06T04:52:07Z")