I did this in the solrconfig.xml for both collections (tutors and questions).
<dataDir>/solr/data</dataDir> I deleted the old collection indexes, reloaded, restarted, and created a new collection for “tutors". And I see this on the disk. [wunder@new-solr-c02.test3]# ls -l /solr/data total 36 drwxr-xr-x 2 bin bin 20480 Feb 23 17:40 index drwxr-xr-x 2 bin bin 4096 Feb 23 15:57 snapshot_metadata drwxr-xr-x 2 bin bin 4096 Feb 23 15:57 suggest_subject_names_fuzzy drwxr-xr-x 2 bin bin 4096 Feb 23 15:57 suggest_subject_names_infix drwxr-xr-x 2 bin bin 4096 Feb 23 17:40 tlog [wunder@new-solr-c02.test3]# ls -l /apps/solr6/server/solr total 12 drwxr-xr-x 5 bin bin 93 Jul 14 2016 configsets -rw-r--r-- 1 bin bin 3037 Jul 14 2016 README.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 bin bin 2117 Aug 31 20:13 solr.xml drwxr-xr-x 2 bin bin 28 Feb 23 15:57 tutors_shard1_replica5 -rw-r--r-- 1 bin bin 501 Jul 14 2016 zoo.cfg [wunder@new-solr-c02.test3]# Seems pretty broken to me. wunder Walter Underwood wun...@wunderwood.org http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog)