# rpk cluster logdirs describe

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description: Describe log directories on Redpanda brokers. This command prints information about log directories on brokers, as well as the number of records in those log directories.
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Describe log directories on Redpanda brokers.

This command prints information about log directories on brokers, as well as the number of records in those log directories. The information is sorted first by topic, then by partition, and last by broker.

The directory returned is the root directory for partitions. Within Redpanda, the partition data lives underneath the returned root directory in `kafka/{topic}/{partition}_{revision}/`, where `revision` is a Redpanda internal concept.

## [](#usage)Usage

```bash
rpk cluster logdirs describe [flags]
```

## [](#flags)Flags

| Value | Type | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| --aggregate-into | string | Aggregate results into the specified column starting from the partition column. Valid values: broker, dir, topic. |
| -b, --broker | int32 | If non-negative, the specific broker to describe. |
| -H, --human-readable | bool | Print the logdirs size in a human-readable form. |
| --sort-by-size | bool | If true, sort by size. |
| --topics | stringSlice | Specific topics to describe. |

## [](#global-flags)Global flags

| Value | Type | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| --config | string | Redpanda or rpk config file; default search paths are ~/.config/rpk/rpk.yaml, $PWD/redpanda.yaml, and /etc/redpanda/redpanda.yaml. |
| -X, --config-opt | stringArray | Override rpk configuration settings; -X help for detail or -X list for terser detail. |
| --ignore-profile | bool | Ignore rpk.yaml and redpanda.yaml; use default settings. |
| --profile | string | rpk profile to use. |
| -v, --verbose | bool | Enable verbose logging. |