# File beats 5.1 consume a mount of disk space

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-beats-5-1-consume-a-mount-of-disk-space/76953>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Created:** [March 1, 2017, 9:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-beats-5-1-consume-a-mount-of-disk-space/76953 "2017-03-01T09:22:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![whybangbang](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/whybangbang/32/7116_2.png) [@whybangbang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/whybangbang)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 9:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-beats-5-1-consume-a-mount-of-disk-space/76953/1 "2017-03-01T09:22:00Z")

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file beats 5.1 consume a mount of disk space

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**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 9:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-beats-5-1-consume-a-mount-of-disk-space/76953/2 "2017-03-01T09:37:18Z")

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Can you please share some more details?

- What is your setup
- Config files
- Potential logs?

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**Author:** ![whybangbang](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/whybangbang/32/7116_2.png) [@whybangbang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/whybangbang)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 8:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-beats-5-1-consume-a-mount-of-disk-space/76953/3 "2017-03-02T08:37:17Z")

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thank for your reply, we have solve it. we add a param 'ignore\_older'

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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:** [March 22, 2017, 9:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-beats-5-1-consume-a-mount-of-disk-space/76953/4 "2017-03-22T09:22:25Z")

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