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Docs: Added tables for directory locations for deb+rpm and zip+tar.gz installs 

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Mark Walkom 2014-06-16 20:52:23 +10:00 committed by Clinton Gormley
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The directory layout of an installation is as follows:
[cols="<,<,<,<",options="header",]
[cols="<h,<,<m,<m",options="header",]
|=======================================================================
|Type |Description |Default Location |Setting
|*home* |Home of elasticsearch installation | | `path.home`
| Type | Description | Default Location | Setting
| home | Home of elasticsearch installation. | | path.home
|*bin* |Binary scripts including `elasticsearch` to start a node | `{path.home}/bin` |
| bin | Binary scripts including `elasticsearch` to start a node. | {path.home}/bin | | conf | Configuration files including `elasticsearch.yml` | {path.home}/config | path.conf
|*conf* |Configuration files including `elasticsearch.yml` |`{path.home}/config` |`path.conf`
| data | The location of the data files of each index / shard allocated
on the node. Can hold multiple locations. | {path.home}/data| path.data
|*data* |The location of the data files of each index / shard allocated
on the node. Can hold multiple locations. |`{path.home}/data`|`path.data`
| logs | Log files location. | {path.home}/logs | path.logs
|*work* |Temporal files that are used by different nodes. |`{path.home}/work` |`path.work`
|*logs* |Log files location |`{path.home}/logs` |`path.logs`
|*plugins* |Plugin files location. Each plugin will be contained in a subdirectory. |`{path.home}/plugins` |`path.plugins`
| plugins | Plugin files location. Each plugin will be contained in a subdirectory. | {path.home}/plugins | path.plugins
|=======================================================================
The multiple data locations allows to stripe it. The striping is simple,
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path.data: ["/mnt/first", "/mnt/second"]
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[[Default Paths]]
=== Default Paths
Below are the default paths that elasticsearch will use, if not explictly changed.
==== deb and rpm
[cols="<h,<,<m,<m",options="header",]
|=======================================================================
| Type | Description | Location Debian/Ubuntu | Location RHEL/CentOS
| home | Home of elasticsearch installation. | /usr/share/elasticsearch | /usr/share/elasticsearch
| bin | Binary scripts including `elasticsearch` to start a node. | /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin | /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin
| conf | Configuration files `elasticsearch.yml` and `logging.yml`. | /etc/elasticsearch | /etc/elasticsearch
| conf | Environment variables including heap size, file descriptors. | /etc/default/elasticseach | /etc/sysconfig/elasticsearch
| data | The location of the data files of each index / shard allocated
on the node. | /var/lib/elasticsearch/data | /var/lib/elasticsearch
| logs | Log files location | /var/log/elasticsearch | /var/log/elasticsearch
| plugins | Plugin files location. Each plugin will be contained in a subdirectory. | /usr/share/elasticsearch/plugins | /usr/share/elasticsearch/plugins
|=======================================================================
==== zip and tar.gz
[cols="<h,<,<m",options="header",]
|=======================================================================
| Type | Description | Location
| home | Home of elasticsearch installation | {extract.path}
| bin | Binary scripts including `elasticsearch` to start a node | {extract.path}/bin
| conf | Configuration files `elasticsearch.yml` and `logging.yml` | {extract.path}/config
| conf | Environment variables including heap size, file descriptors | {extract.path}/config
| data | The location of the data files of each index / shard allocated
on the node | {extract.path}/data
| logs | Log files location | {extract.path}/logs
| plugins | Plugin files location. Each plugin will be contained in a subdirectory | {extract.path}/plugins
|=======================================================================