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Creating index in another drive windows

masterpiece
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How can I create index in another drive, I am running splunk on windows and its in C: drive.
So I want to create an index in 😧 drive as on C drive I have low space.

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ddrillic
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You can create a new volume such as in Syntax when creating volumes

They showed there -

 [volume:splunkdata]
 path = d:/Program Files/Splunk/var/lib/splunk
 maxVolumeDataSizeMB = 350000

 [os]
 homePath = volume:splunkdata/os/db
 coldPath = volume:splunkdata/os/colddb
 thawedPath = $SPLUNK_DB/os/thaweddb
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woodcock
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