# Set installation path

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-installation-path/65903>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [July 9, 2017, 7:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-installation-path/65903 "2017-07-09T19:05:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 5

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2017, 8:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-installation-path/65903/5 "2017-07-09T20:00:43Z")

</div>

There are several folders involved in a typical Discourse install:

1. Docker root dir, typically `/var/lib/docker`, where docker images live.

2. the folder where your Discourse installer lives, typically `/var/discourse/`

3. folders of Discourse persistence, typically `/var/discourse/shared`.

If you are low on space on the main disk, you wanna change 1 and 3 first.

Our space detection code will check for enough space on 1, and will the check will follow a config change on docker just fine.

---

_[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-installation-path/65903)._