# Is it possible to configure the filesystem store location for an index?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-configure-the-filesystem-store-location-for-an-index/32987>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 26, 2015, 12:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-configure-the-filesystem-store-location-for-an-index/32987 "2015-10-26T12:55:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Joost\_Cassee](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/joost_cassee/32/2156_2.png) [@Joost\_Cassee](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Joost_Cassee)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2015, 12:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-configure-the-filesystem-store-location-for-an-index/32987/1 "2015-10-26T12:55:31Z")

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Lately, I have been toying with the idea of having a Docker image with some preloaded Elasticsearch indexes. The thing is, I would like to also have a host-mounted volume of dynamic indexes on the same node.

More detail: I have a search tool for a number of data sources. Some of these are expensive to build and need to be synchronized with a specific binary because of identifiers. I would like to bake these into the Docker image. Others are more dynamic, so I would like to mount these from the host to survive a restart.

Is this in any way possible?

update: so what Elasticsearch would probably need to support is having indexes live at a different filesystem location.

-- Joost

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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:** [October 27, 2015, 1:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-configure-the-filesystem-store-location-for-an-index/32987/2 "2015-10-27T01:59:48Z")

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You cannot do this, if you'd like to have it then please raise a feature request on github 🙂

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**Author:** ![Joost\_Cassee](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/joost_cassee/32/2156_2.png) [@Joost\_Cassee](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Joost_Cassee)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 9:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-configure-the-filesystem-store-location-for-an-index/32987/3 "2015-10-27T09:16:07Z")

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Alright, thanks Mark!

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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 5, 2017, 11:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-configure-the-filesystem-store-location-for-an-index/32987/4 "2017-07-05T23:42:29Z")

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Closed on July 5, 2017, 11:42pm UTC