topic When using volumes, does Splunk count only index files or others too? in Getting Data In https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/When-using-volumes-does-Splunk-count-only-index-files-or-others/m-p/26393#M4344 <P>Question regarding 4.2+'s abililty to put a maxVolumeDataSizeMB on an arbitrary path, call it a volume, and put indexes in it.</P> <P>I have some indexes at <CODE>/data/indexes</CODE> and also my syslog server logs to <CODE>/data/logs</CODE>.</P> <P>If I set my index volume to be <CODE>/data</CODE>, will Splunk include the syslog logs in the volume size so I will never overrun my disk space? (If syslog data explodes for a few days, I would rather have old index buckets deleted than run against a disk space limit and stop accepting new data!)</P> Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:54:36 GMT Jason 2011-06-10T13:54:36Z When using volumes, does Splunk count only index files or others too? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/When-using-volumes-does-Splunk-count-only-index-files-or-others/m-p/26393#M4344 <P>Question regarding 4.2+'s abililty to put a maxVolumeDataSizeMB on an arbitrary path, call it a volume, and put indexes in it.</P> <P>I have some indexes at <CODE>/data/indexes</CODE> and also my syslog server logs to <CODE>/data/logs</CODE>.</P> <P>If I set my index volume to be <CODE>/data</CODE>, will Splunk include the syslog logs in the volume size so I will never overrun my disk space? (If syslog data explodes for a few days, I would rather have old index buckets deleted than run against a disk space limit and stop accepting new data!)</P> Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:54:36 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/When-using-volumes-does-Splunk-count-only-index-files-or-others/m-p/26393#M4344 Jason 2011-06-10T13:54:36Z Re: When using volumes, does Splunk count only index files or others too? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/When-using-volumes-does-Splunk-count-only-index-files-or-others/m-p/26394#M4345 <P>According to <A href="http://splunk-base.splunk.com/users/15/gkanapathy">gkanapathy</A>, ONLY splunk indexes are counted, not other files that may be in the volume.</P> Fri, 10 Jun 2011 17:47:43 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/When-using-volumes-does-Splunk-count-only-index-files-or-others/m-p/26394#M4345 Jason 2011-06-10T17:47:43Z