# Eck-elasticsearch helm chart - how to properly set path.repo

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/eck-elasticsearch-helm-chart-how-to-properly-set-path-repo/383278>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 6, 2025, 11:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/eck-elasticsearch-helm-chart-how-to-properly-set-path-repo/383278 "2025-11-06T23:38:13Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 11:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/eck-elasticsearch-helm-chart-how-to-properly-set-path-repo/383278/1 "2025-11-06T23:38:14Z")

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I have installed an ES cluster and kibana instance on k8s and verified both are working correctly. I am currently attempting to link a snapshot repository created for our prod cluster to my dev cluster which was provisioned by an external NFS server. I have created a PV and PVC to bind to this NFS share, but when I attempt to create a Read Only snapshot repository in Kibana UI using the mount path for that PVC, I get an error in the ES node logs that the path is not added to path.repo

Here is how I currently have my values.yaml file configured. I initially tried just setting nodeSets.path.repo, but when that didn’t work tried setting elasticsearch.yaml manually as well:

```auto
nodeSets:
  config:
     node.store.allow_mmap: false
  path.repo: /mnt/snapshots
  count: 3
  name: default
  podTemplate:
    spec:
    containers:
      - name: elasticsearch
        resources:
          limits:
            memory: 12Gi
          requests:
            memory: 8Gi
        volumeMounts:
          - mountPath: /mnt/snapshots
            name: snapshot-repo
    volumes:
      - claimName: es-snapshot-pvc
        name: snapshot-repo
esConfig:
  elasticsearch.yml: |
    path.repo: /mnt/snapshots

```

Error log in ES pod:  
`"eck-elasticsearch","error.type":"org.elasticsearch.repositories.RepositoryException","error.message":"[search-prod] location [/mnt/snapshots] doesn't match any of the locations specified by path.repo because this setting is empty"`

Clearly I’m not setting path.repo in the right place, but it’s not clear from the documentation I’ve looked at where I should be setting this value instead. Also, to be clear, this is with the eck-elasticsearch helm chart v0.17.0