# Regarding elasticsearch data folder **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [August 10, 2016, 1:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/regarding-elasticsearch-data-folder/57707 "2016-08-10T13:32:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gayathri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/838e76/32.png) [@gayathri](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gayathri)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2016, 1:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/regarding-elasticsearch-data-folder/57707/1 "2016-08-10T13:32:23Z")
Hi Team, In my elasticsearch.yml, I have: ``` index.number_of_shards: 3 index.number_of_replicas: 1 ``` I only have "0" named folder inside : /opt/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-2.3.3/data/index1/nodes ``` [root@host nodes]# ls 0 [root@host nodes]# ``` What is this folder belongs to, and **Is this indexing fine?** Thanks, Gayathri ---
**Author:** ![abeyad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/278dde/32.png) [@abeyad](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/abeyad)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2016, 4:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/regarding-elasticsearch-data-folder/57707/2 "2016-08-10T16:10:04Z")
Hi Gayathri, "0" is the id of your node in your cluster. If you only have a "0", it means you have a one node cluster. You should see an `indices` folder under "0", which should contain your different indices, and under each you will find the index shard data. As long as you can get/search the data you've been indexing, then you're indexing fine 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![gayathri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/838e76/32.png) [@gayathri](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gayathri)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 3:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/regarding-elasticsearch-data-folder/57707/3 "2016-08-11T03:29:57Z")
Ohk, since Iam giving "index.number\_of\_shards" as "3", will it contain folders like "1" ,"2" Thanks, Gayathri ---
**Author:** ![abeyad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/278dde/32.png) [@abeyad](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/abeyad)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 3:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/regarding-elasticsearch-data-folder/57707/4 "2016-08-11T03:48:47Z")
Yes, for each shard's data inside the `indices` directory. ---
**Author:** ![gayathri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/838e76/32.png) [@gayathri](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gayathri)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 3:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/regarding-elasticsearch-data-folder/57707/5 "2016-08-11T03:52:49Z")
So I have only "0" folder inside my data directory....What could be the issue? ---
**Author:** ![abeyad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/278dde/32.png) [@abeyad](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/abeyad)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 5:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/regarding-elasticsearch-data-folder/57707/6 "2016-08-11T17:45:46Z")
I don't follow. You have `0` inside `nodes` probably because you only have one node. Under your `indices` folder (nodes/0/indices), you should see your index, then inside your index folder, you should see directories `0`, `1`, `2` and `_state` (since you have 3 primary shards and only one node that they are allocated on). On looking at your original question, the `index.*` settings are index level settings, they don't belong in elasticsearch.yml but rather in the index settings or index templates, see: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-create-index.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-create-index.html) ---
**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, 10:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/regarding-elasticsearch-data-folder/57707/7 "2017-07-05T22:28:17Z")