diff --git a/docs/src/pages/guides/FHIRServerUsersGuide.md b/docs/src/pages/guides/FHIRServerUsersGuide.md
index 13221891e86..55f413da549 100644
--- a/docs/src/pages/guides/FHIRServerUsersGuide.md
+++ b/docs/src/pages/guides/FHIRServerUsersGuide.md
@@ -1320,7 +1320,7 @@ The Bulk Data web application writes the exported FHIR resources to an IBM Cloud
     "storageProviders": {
         "default" : {
             "type": "file",
-            "fileBase": "${WLP_OUTPUT_DIR}/fhir-server/output",
+            "fileBase": "/output/bulkdata",
             "exportPublic": true,
             "disableOperationOutcomes": true,
             "duplicationCheck": false,
@@ -2071,7 +2071,7 @@ This section contains reference information about each of the configuration prop
 |`fhirServer/bulkdata/storageProviders/<source>/location`|string|Object store location |
 |`fhirServer/bulkdata/storageProviders/<source>/endpointInternal`|string|Object store end point url used to read/write from COS |
 |`fhirServer/bulkdata/storageProviders/<source>/endpointExternal`|string|Object store end point url used in the constructed download URLs|
-|`fhirServer/bulkdata/storageProviders/<source>/fileBase`|string| The absolute path of the output directory |
+|`fhirServer/bulkdata/storageProviders/<source>/fileBase`|string| The absolute path of the output directory. It may be desirable to set this to a path within a mount point of separate file system if large amounts of data are involved|
 |`fhirServer/bulkdata/storageProviders/<source>/validBaseUrls`|list|The list of supported urls which are approved for the fhir server to access|
 |`fhirServer/bulkdata/storageProviders/<source>/disableBaseUrlValidation`|boolean|Disables the URL checking feature, allowing all URLs to be imported|
 |`fhirServer/bulkdata/storageProviders/<source>/exportPublic`|boolean|Whether or not the server is configured to support export to parquet; to properly enable it the administrator must first make spark and stocator available to the fhir-bulkdata-webapp (e.g through the shared lib at `wlp/user/shared/resources/lib`)|
diff --git a/fhir-install/Dockerfile b/fhir-install/Dockerfile
index e5537d86a89..22105db0910 100644
--- a/fhir-install/Dockerfile
+++ b/fhir-install/Dockerfile
@@ -52,7 +52,8 @@ RUN features.sh
 
 COPY --chown=1001:0 --from=base /opt/ol/wlp/usr /opt/ol/wlp/usr
 
-RUN configure.sh
+RUN configure.sh && \
+    mkdir -p /output/bulkdata
 
 COPY --chown=1001:0 --from=base /opt/ibm-fhir-server /opt/ibm-fhir-server
 
diff --git a/fhir-server/liberty-config/config/default/fhir-server-config.json b/fhir-server/liberty-config/config/default/fhir-server-config.json
index e2b91810b13..6e2e9acd576 100644
--- a/fhir-server/liberty-config/config/default/fhir-server-config.json
+++ b/fhir-server/liberty-config/config/default/fhir-server-config.json
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@
                     "type": "file",
                     "_type": "ibm-cos|aws-s3|file|https",
                     "validBaseUrls": [],
-                    "fileBase": "/fhir-server/output",
+                    "fileBase": "/output/bulkdata",
                     "bucketName": "fhir-performance",
                     "location": "us",
                     "endpointInternal": "https://s3.us-east.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud",