# All shrads in Unassigned state

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/all-shrads-in-unassigned-state/78344>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 13, 2017, 1:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/all-shrads-in-unassigned-state/78344 "2017-03-13T13:12:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![sgarap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@sgarap](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sgarap)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2017, 1:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/all-shrads-in-unassigned-state/78344/1 "2017-03-13T13:12:02Z")

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Hi,

I have an elastic cluster of 3 data nodes,3 masters and 3 clients.  
curl -v -u admin [http://localhost:9200/\_cluster/health?pretty](http://localhost:9200/_cluster/health?pretty) --noproxy '\*'

{  
"cluster\_name" : "myesdb",  
"status" : "red",  
"timed\_out" : false,  
"number\_of\_nodes" : 9,  
"number\_of\_data\_nodes" : 3,  
"active\_primary\_shards" : 0,  
"active\_shards" : 0,  
"relocating\_shards" : 0,  
"initializing\_shards" : 0,  
**"unassigned\_shards" : 75,**  
"delayed\_unassigned\_shards" : 0,  
"number\_of\_pending\_tasks" : 0,  
"number\_of\_in\_flight\_fetch" : 0,  
"task\_max\_waiting\_in\_queue\_millis" : 0,  
"active\_shards\_percent\_as\_number" : 0.0  
}  
I attached 1GB volume to each of datanodes. The volumes are full and all shards are found in unassigned state( curl --noproxy '\*' -v -u admin -XGET '[http://localhost:9200/\_cat/shards](http://localhost:9200/_cat/shards)'  
I created new volumes and restarted the nodes, but still the cluster is in state red and all nodes are still in unassigned state.

I tried with the following settings, but still the shards are not re-balanced and the cluster is in status red. How can I solve the unassigned shard problem?

"cluster.routing.allocation.allow\_rebalance" : "always",  
"cluster.routing.allocation.cluster\_concurrent\_rebalance" : 10  
"cluster.routing.rebalance.enable" : "all"

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 6:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/all-shrads-in-unassigned-state/78344/2 "2017-03-14T18:38:08Z")

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So you removed the existing data volumes and added new ones?

If that is the case, then you will never be able to assign those shards as the data is lost.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 6:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/all-shrads-in-unassigned-state/78344/3 "2017-04-11T18:38:14Z")

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