# Indices exist in Elasticsearch but cannot find data **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [January 28, 2017, 5:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indices-exist-in-elasticsearch-but-cannot-find-data/73078 "2017-01-28T05:42:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Patrick\_Lam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Patrick\_Lam](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Patrick_Lam)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2017, 5:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indices-exist-in-elasticsearch-but-cannot-find-data/73078/1 "2017-01-28T05:42:06Z")
Hi, In the course of trying to debug unassigned shards in an ES (5.0) restart, I was trying to go find the data on disk. WIth an RPM installation on a single node, I understand that the data should be stored in "/var/lib/elasticsearch/nodes/0/indices". However, the indices directory seems to not exist (or has been deleted) from the system. But there are still clearly indices in ES and I can query them, etc. Is there an explanation for this? Are the data stored somewhere else? Can indices exist in ES without the underlying data being stored? ---
**Author:** ![Patrick\_Lam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Patrick\_Lam](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Patrick_Lam)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2017, 5:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indices-exist-in-elasticsearch-but-cannot-find-data/73078/2 "2017-01-28T05:46:21Z")
Sorry ignore this. I found the data with the Nodes API. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 5:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indices-exist-in-elasticsearch-but-cannot-find-data/73078/3 "2017-02-25T05:46:37Z")
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