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Rohail Abbas
Rohail Abbas

Reputation: 581

How to Cleanup Full Disk on Elasticsearch Node while Elasticsearch is not running

I have Elasticsearch 7.4 with 1 master and 5 data nodes (Amazon ec2 instances). I have cluster.routing.allocation.disk.threshold_enabled setting = false Now one of the disk in a node became full and elasticsearch stopped due to disk full error.

ElasticsearchException[failed to load metadata]; nested: IOException[No space left on device];

/dev/nvme1n1p1  493G  468G     0 100% /disk1

After this, cluster shows only 4 data nodes, 9 shards are still unallocated and search requests are being denied, while other nodes still have enough space left on their disks.

I want to make some space by deleting old data through POST API but that won't work in this case.

Now my question is, how can I cleanup the disk on this node while it only contains elasticsearch data and is not available in the cluster.

Thank you for your help.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3180

Answers (1)

hamid bayat
hamid bayat

Reputation: 2179

elasticsearch save the indices files in DATA folder with UUID. you can find your DATA folder path in elasticsearch.yml.

also you can find indices UUID with GET /_cat/indices?v

consider that I assume you have time based indices and can delete a indices. if you want to delete some document of offline indices, that is not possible.

Upvotes: 1

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