Support Video: How to move Kafka Partition log directory within a Broker Node?

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At times, Kafka Brokers can find one of its log directory utilization at 100% and the broker process would fail to start.

This article provides the instructions to manually move partition data between different log directories within a Kafka Broker.

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The Kafka brokers maintain two offset checkpoint files inside each log directory:

1. replication-offset-checkpoint
2. recovery-point-offset-checkpoint

And both these files have the following format:

(a) 1st line: Version Number
(b) 2nd line: Number of topic-partition entries in the file
(c) All the remaining lines: Replication Offset/Recovery Point Offset, for every partition data maintained within the current log directory.

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