# Multiple disks on a single node

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-disks-on-a-single-node/47068>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 12, 2016, 3:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-disks-on-a-single-node/47068 "2016-04-12T03:51:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![lucifer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@lucifer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lucifer)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 3:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-disks-on-a-single-node/47068/1 "2016-04-12T03:51:29Z")

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How exactly does the data distributes itself when I specify multiple paths in the path.data field?

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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:** [April 12, 2016, 3:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-disks-on-a-single-node/47068/2 "2016-04-12T03:52:02Z")

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One shard per mount.

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**Author:** ![lucifer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@lucifer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lucifer)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 3:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-disks-on-a-single-node/47068/3 "2016-04-12T03:52:58Z")

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Is it so that all shards of a particular index will be at the same mount point?

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**Author:** ![anhlqn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/anhlqn/32/5454_2.png) [@anhlqn](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anhlqn)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 6:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-disks-on-a-single-node/47068/4 "2016-04-12T06:01:27Z")

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If you have 3 data paths and an index with 3 shards: each shard stays on one data path.  
If you have 3 data paths and an index with 3 shards and 1 replica: one primary shard and one replica stay on one data path.

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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, 11:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-disks-on-a-single-node/47068/5 "2017-07-05T23:00:25Z")

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