Hi everyone. I’m just getting started with the Confluent platform. I installed it using the on-premise tar method on a small Ubuntu VM.
Now I would like Kafka to store the data within topics on a mounted disk. Therefore, I adjusted the server.properties and specified the directory (e.g. “/mnt/kafka”) in the log.dirs parameter according to the docs.
I then start the platform using confluent local services start and create my connectors to populate the topics. However, my directory on the mounted disk does not seem to be written data to.
It looks like the data remains here: “/tmp/confluent.104865/kafka/data”
the command confluent local commands are intended for dev environments with only temp data.
afaik starting the env with confluent local services start
will always use a temp directory (depending on your os)