In prior versions of Elasticsearch, the path.data directory included a folder for the cluster name, so that data was in a folder such as $DATA_DIR/$CLUSTER_NAME/nodes/$nodeOrdinal. In 5.0 the cluster name as a directory is deprecated. Data will now be stored in $DATA_DIR/nodes/$nodeOrdinal if there is no existing data. Upon startup, Elasticsearch will check to see if the cluster folder exists an..