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[DOCS] Disambiguate logs and data in path settings docs (#70629)

James Rodewig 4 years ago
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      docs/reference/setup/important-settings/path-settings.asciidoc

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docs/reference/setup/important-settings/path-settings.asciidoc

@@ -2,10 +2,14 @@
 [discrete]
 === Path settings
 
+{es} writes the data you index to indices and data streams to a `data`
+directory. {es} writes its own application logs, which contain information about
+cluster health and operations, to a `logs` directory.
+
 For <<targz,macOS `.tar.gz`>>, <<targz,Linux `.tar.gz`>>, and
-<<zip-windows,Windows `.zip`>> installations, {es} writes data and logs to the
-respective `data` and `logs` subdirectories of `$ES_HOME` by default.
-However, files in `$ES_HOME` risk deletion during an upgrade.
+<<zip-windows,Windows `.zip`>> installations, `data` and `logs` are
+subdirectories of `$ES_HOME` by default. However, files in `$ES_HOME` risk
+deletion during an upgrade.
 
 In production, we strongly recommend you set the `path.data` and `path.logs` in
 `elasticsearch.yml` to locations outside of `$ES_HOME`.
@@ -30,4 +34,4 @@ the node, even if the node’s other paths have available disk space. If you nee
 additional disk space, we recommend you add a new node rather than additional
 data paths. 
 
-include::{es-repo-dir}/tab-widgets/multi-data-path-widget.asciidoc[]
+include::{es-repo-dir}/tab-widgets/multi-data-path-widget.asciidoc[]