How to use custom path for JIRA Indexes

[Anil Kumar Patcha]

We have installed JIRA DataCenter. How are indexes are created under default location i.e <JIRA-HOME>/caches/indexes.

But we need to use the custom path. How do we do that. Please suggest the process. 

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

You don't do it in Jira.  Jira relies on a specific structure in its home directory.

So, if you want to locate parts of the home directory in different places, you have to do it with the operating system.  The most simple solution is to move the /caches/indexes to another disk (remembering that they must be fast local disks with a supported file system - not NFS or other shared storage systems), and then use a symbolic link to tell the device where to look for the directory.