# Data distribution among mount points of different capacity on a single node

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-distribution-among-mount-points-of-different-capacity-on-a-single-node/182246>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 22, 2019, 2:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-distribution-among-mount-points-of-different-capacity-on-a-single-node/182246 "2019-05-22T14:12:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Abhishek\_Jain](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/abhishek_jain/32/46143_2.png) [@Abhishek\_Jain](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Abhishek_Jain)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2019, 2:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-distribution-among-mount-points-of-different-capacity-on-a-single-node/182246/1 "2019-05-22T14:12:14Z")

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Hey,

I have a 3 node cluster.  
I have configured 3 mount points per server(/data1, /data2, /data3).  
/data1 1.8T  
/data2 1.8T  
/data3 5.5T  
How would data distribution work on a single node. Would it split equally or the data distribution could be skewed because of heterogeneous mount points?

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**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:** [May 22, 2019, 2:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-distribution-among-mount-points-of-different-capacity-on-a-single-node/182246/2 "2019-05-22T14:40:04Z")

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It distributes the data in round robin manner until the smallest volume is (nearly) full, as per disk watermarks.

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**Author:** ![Abhishek\_Jain](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/abhishek_jain/32/46143_2.png) [@Abhishek\_Jain](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Abhishek_Jain)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2019, 1:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-distribution-among-mount-points-of-different-capacity-on-a-single-node/182246/3 "2019-05-24T13:54:54Z")

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So it is equivalent to having 3\*1.8T disks?

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**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:** [May 24, 2019, 3:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-distribution-among-mount-points-of-different-capacity-on-a-single-node/182246/4 "2019-05-24T15:43:23Z")

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Yep.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2019, 3:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-distribution-among-mount-points-of-different-capacity-on-a-single-node/182246/5 "2019-06-21T15:43:33Z")

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Closed on June 21, 2019, 3:43pm UTC

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