# Increase data capacity

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/increase-data-capacity/24913>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 5, 2015, 11:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/increase-data-capacity/24913 "2015-07-05T11:55:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Danny\_Sokolovski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/77aa72/32.png) [@Danny\_Sokolovski](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Danny_Sokolovski)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2015, 11:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/increase-data-capacity/24913/1 "2015-07-05T11:55:49Z")

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Hi,

I have a 200GB disk attached to the ES server in a 5 servers cluster they are all using %50 . I now need to add more space what are my options ? i don't want to use LVM to expand disk & from what i saw i think the solution is built in & i only need to add a disk & add new path in config as written but i want to be sure can someone please confirm ? -

# Path to directory where to store index data allocated for this node.

# 

#path.data: /path/to/data

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# Can optionally include more than one location, causing data to be striped across

# the locations (a la RAID 0) on a file level, favouring locations with most free

# space on creation. For example:

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#path.data: /path/to/data1,/path/to/data2

Thansk,  
Danny

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**Author:** ![Danny\_Sokolovski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/77aa72/32.png) [@Danny\_Sokolovski](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Danny_Sokolovski)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2015, 3:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/increase-data-capacity/24913/2 "2015-07-05T15:03:51Z")

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ok i can answer myself after adding that this works 😄

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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:** [July 5, 2015, 9:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/increase-data-capacity/24913/3 "2015-07-05T21:05:12Z")

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What answer did you find?

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 12:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/increase-data-capacity/24913/4 "2017-07-06T00:03:32Z")

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