# Kibana 6.2 Discover Screen: Searching for "/"

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-6-2-discover-screen-searching-for/134080
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [May 31, 2018, 3:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-6-2-discover-screen-searching-for/134080 "2018-05-31T15:28:01Z")
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### Author: ![Shafique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Shafique](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shafique)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2018, 3:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-6-2-discover-screen-searching-for/134080/1 "2018-05-31T15:28:01Z")

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Hello,

I'm storing some disk partition names (eg. /, /boot, etc.) into the following field:  
"partition": {  
"type": "text",  
"fields": {  
"keyword": {  
"type": "keyword",  
"ignore\_above": 256  
}  
}  
}

On Discover screen, I can search for partition:"/boot", but not partition:"/". Char "/" is not an special char ([https://lucene.apache.org/core/2\_9\_4/queryparsersyntax.html#Escaping%20Special%20Characters](https://lucene.apache.org/core/2_9_4/queryparsersyntax.html#Escaping%20Special%20Characters)).

Any thought on how I can search for it?

Thanks!

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### Author: ![tsullivan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tsullivan/32/31077_2.png) [@tsullivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tsullivan)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2018, 8:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-6-2-discover-screen-searching-for/134080/2 "2018-05-31T20:00:22Z")

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You probably should just have the partition field mapped as `keyword`. I made some sample data like this in 6.2.4 and I can filter for `/` in Discover:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/7/d/7d83238c9b65f0b6003fd7c5cfdb1d52b04fafb6.png)

My mapping looks like:

```auto
{
  "partitions": {
    "mappings": {
      "doc": {
        "properties": {
          "partition": {
            "type": "keyword"
          },
          ...
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

```

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### Author: ![Shafique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Shafique](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shafique)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2018, 7:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-6-2-discover-screen-searching-for/134080/3 "2018-06-01T07:02:55Z")

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Thanks @tsullivan.

I was using Lucene query, partition:"/"

But as you mentioned, using 'keyword' helps to find it in search box: partition.keyword:"/"

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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: [June 29, 2018, 7:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-6-2-discover-screen-searching-for/134080/4 "2018-06-29T07:02:56Z")

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