---
title: disk_space
description: The value for this setting is a number of gigabytes. Indices in excess of this number of gigabytes will be matched. There is no default value. This setting...
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/reference/elasticsearch/curator/fe_disk_space
products:
  - Elasticsearch
  - Elasticsearch Curator
---

# disk_space
<note>
  This setting is only used with the [space](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/reference/elasticsearch/curator/filtertype_space) filtertype and is a required setting.
</note>

```yaml
- filtertype: space
  disk_space: 100
```

The value for this setting is a number of gigabytes.
Indices in excess of this number of gigabytes will be matched.
There is no default value. This setting must be set by the user or an exception will be raised, and execution will halt.