Increasing Size of Disk on Virtual Machine

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Hi guys,

A similar question was asked a few days ago about adding another disk to an
ES node herehttps://groups.google.com/d/topic/elasticsearch/r188PiuCOR8/discussion.
My questions is very similar but I didn't want to hijack the thread.

Lets say I have 2 nodes both running in separate virtual machines and one
of the nodes is looking like it's going to outgrow it's allocated disk
storage capacity in the not too distant future. In order to increase the
disk space available to that node can I just take that node offline,
increase the disk space allocated to that virtual machine and then spin it
all back up again? Would the shards (or shard) on node then just keep
indexing data making use of the extra space when they needed to?

Cheers,
James

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Assuming you increase the disk where the data directory is pointed, that
should do the trick.

On Saturday, January 26, 2013 11:49:46 AM UTC-7, james...@7digital.com
wrote:

Hi guys,

A similar question was asked a few days ago about adding another disk to
an ES node herehttps://groups.google.com/d/topic/elasticsearch/r188PiuCOR8/discussion.
My questions is very similar but I didn't want to hijack the thread.

Lets say I have 2 nodes both running in separate virtual machines and one
of the nodes is looking like it's going to outgrow it's allocated disk
storage capacity in the not too distant future. In order to increase the
disk space available to that node can I just take that node offline,
increase the disk space allocated to that virtual machine and then spin it
all back up again? Would the shards (or shard) on node then just keep
indexing data making use of the extra space when they needed to?

Cheers,
James

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Thanks! I also asked around on the irc channel and yeah the answer was elasticsearch will just keep filling the space on the disk without any knowledge of what that space actually is. So you can increase the disk size and elasticsearch will fill into it.

Regards,
James

On 29 Jan 2013, at 05:24, ppearcy ppearcy@gmail.com wrote:

Assuming you increase the disk where the data directory is pointed, that should do the trick.

On Saturday, January 26, 2013 11:49:46 AM UTC-7, james...@7digital.com wrote:

Hi guys,

A similar question was asked a few days ago about adding another disk to an ES node here. My questions is very similar but I didn't want to hijack the thread.

Lets say I have 2 nodes both running in separate virtual machines and one of the nodes is looking like it's going to outgrow it's allocated disk storage capacity in the not too distant future. In order to increase the disk space available to that node can I just take that node offline, increase the disk space allocated to that virtual machine and then spin it all back up again? Would the shards (or shard) on node then just keep indexing data making use of the extra space when they needed to?

Cheers,
James
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