# Steps to perform for changing the data mount in ES

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/steps-to-perform-for-changing-the-data-mount-in-es/267605>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 18, 2021, 7:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/steps-to-perform-for-changing-the-data-mount-in-es/267605 "2021-03-18T07:02:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jax\_dev](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jax_dev/32/79117_2.png) [@Jax\_dev](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jax_dev)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2021, 7:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/steps-to-perform-for-changing-the-data-mount-in-es/267605/1 "2021-03-18T07:02:19Z")

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Do we have any recommended approach to change the data mount path (` path.data` ) in `elastic_search.yaml` ?

One of the elastic node in the cluster of 4, have mounted into `/var/lib/elastic`, I want to change this to `/data/elastic`.

There space is not available in` /var/lib/elastic` so want to move the entire mount path to new mount which has 1000GB.

Current data is around 330GB, and is in production. How can I safely move this ? Is downtime required ?

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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:** [April 15, 2021, 7:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/steps-to-perform-for-changing-the-data-mount-in-es/267605/2 "2021-04-15T07:02:43Z")

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