# Balancing index data flow

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/balancing-index-data-flow/8687>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 8, 2012, 9:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/balancing-index-data-flow/8687 "2012-08-08T21:36:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![eshrago](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@eshrago](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/eshrago)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 9:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/balancing-index-data-flow/8687/1 "2012-08-08T21:36:57Z")

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Hello,

i have an enterprise level indexing environment for file searching. I'm currently working through the whole file system backlog and disk space has started to become an issue...so I have some new nodes I have kicked up that I would like to add to this cluster to allow enough collective data storage to complete this initial indexing backlog, but since space is at a premium I would like and try to balance and level out the data between the new nodes while allowing enough headroom for organic growth of the file system. Is there a way to do this?

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 3:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/balancing-index-data-flow/8687/2 "2017-07-06T03:17:03Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 3:17am UTC