kafka loses all topics on reboot

Question

I\'m trying out Kafka (0.8.2.1) in a VM, but am having trouble with it: though everything is fine while the machine remains on (even if I restart ZK/Kafka), if I reboot the

Answer 1

Go to kafka installation folder > config> server.properties

search for log.dirs in that file, change path from /tmp/logs to local directory. Restart kafka server and you will see topics created will be saved in that local folder we have changed in config file.