# Single-node, manage data with more than one path

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/single-node-manage-data-with-more-than-one-path/285485>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 29, 2021, 1:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/single-node-manage-data-with-more-than-one-path/285485 "2021-09-29T13:56:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![glitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f04885/32.png) [@glitz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/glitz)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2021, 1:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/single-node-manage-data-with-more-than-one-path/285485/1 "2021-09-29T13:56:43Z")

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Hello,

I have a little yet productive (then important) single-node ELK stack version 7.9.3.

In my unexperience I didn't properly took care of disk space...so I have a 200GB data partition at around at 90% disk usage, while I have another 100GB partition at around 2% disk usage.

I've configured ILM to keep then rotate data at 180 days (6 months) but currently it's not enough space.

I want to use that other partition to store index data, but according [documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.9/path-settings.html) Elasticsearch won't balance data across partitions and also I've read that append a new path to data.path could make [shards problems](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33345002/elasticsearch-issue-when-adding-new-path-data#35550643).

So, what would you advise me to take advantage of that currently unused disk space on another partition inside same single node?

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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:** [September 29, 2021, 9:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/single-node-manage-data-with-more-than-one-path/285485/2 "2021-09-29T21:36:13Z")

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You can either;

- take snapshots to that mount and then delete the indices from the cluster
- add another node that runs on that mount and you can roll over to (ie cold)

> [@glitz](#):
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> ELK stack version 7.9.3

Please upgrade, 7.9 is pretty old and 7.15 is latest 🙂

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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:** [October 27, 2021, 9:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/single-node-manage-data-with-more-than-one-path/285485/3 "2021-10-27T21:36:34Z")

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