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 machine (after gracefully shutting down ZK/Kafka) it seems all Kafka topics go lost.

I'm probably missing something basic here, since this is probably not supposed to happen. What might it be?

cd /vagrant/kafka_2.11-0.8.2.1
bin/zookeeper-server-start.sh config/zookeeper.properties
bin/kafka-server-start.sh config/server.properties
bin/kafka-topics.sh --create --zookeeper localhost:2181 --replication-factor 1 --partitions 10 --topic foo
bin/kafka-topics.sh --list --zookeeper localhost:2181
# foo
# ^C then resume ZooKeeper, Kafka, or both
bin/kafka-topics.sh --list --zookeeper localhost:2181
# foo
# ^C both, reboot machine, boot ZK/Kafka again
bin/kafka-topics.sh --list --zookeeper localhost:2181
# no topics

Answer 1

Looks like the default location for logs is in the /tmp directory which gets wiped on reboot. Change that location in the config to a more permanent location.