diff --git a/backend/onyx/document_index/vespa/app_config/services.xml b/backend/onyx/document_index/vespa/app_config/services.xml
index 03604d1070c..5fa386a9ad8 100644
--- a/backend/onyx/document_index/vespa/app_config/services.xml
+++ b/backend/onyx/document_index/vespa/app_config/services.xml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
             <resource-limits>
                 <!-- Default is 75% but this can be increased for Dockerized deployments -->
                 <!-- https://docs.vespa.ai/en/operations/feed-block.html -->
-                <disk>0.75</disk>
+                <disk>0.85</disk>
             </resource-limits>
         </tuning>
         <engine>    
diff --git a/backend/onyx/seeding/load_docs.py b/backend/onyx/seeding/load_docs.py
index c7c78293d21..980addf867a 100644
--- a/backend/onyx/seeding/load_docs.py
+++ b/backend/onyx/seeding/load_docs.py
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ def seed_initial_documents(
     # as we just sent over the Vespa schema and there is a slight delay
 
     index_with_retries = retry_builder()(document_index.index)
-    index_with_retries(chunks=chunks, fresh_index=True)
+    index_with_retries(chunks=chunks, fresh_index=cohere_enabled)
 
     # Mock a run for the UI even though it did not actually call out to anything
     mock_successful_index_attempt(