# Path.repo is empty

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/path-repo-is-empty/25166>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 8, 2015, 3:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/path-repo-is-empty/25166 "2015-07-08T15:56:19Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 9, 2015, 9:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/path-repo-is-empty/25166/3 "2015-07-09T09:11:57Z")

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Thank you, warkolm...

But I've tried already this syntaxe and it does not work as well.

There are another two strange things that I should mention.

1. when I do  
localhost:9200/\_nodes/?pretty  
I could see my ES config, and indeed path.repo is absent in the conf :

> "path" : {  
> "data" : "/var/lib/elasticsearch",  
> "work" : "/tmp/elasticsearch",  
> "home" : "/usr/share/elasticsearch",  
> "conf" : "/etc/elasticsearch",  
> "logs" : "/var/log/elasticsearch"  
> }

But the config settings is correct :

> ```
> "config" : "/etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml",
> 
> ```

So, why ES does not read path.repo settings?

1. In Ubuntu there is also /etc/default/elasticsearch file...  
But all of settings in this file are commented, and there aren't settings for path.repo

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