# Can all occurrences of a shard be deleted?Can all occurrences of a shard (primary and replica(s)) be re-routed to same node?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-all-occurrences-of-a-shard-be-deleted-can-all-occurrences-of-a-shard-primary-and-replica-s-be-re-routed-to-same-node/54966
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [July 7, 2016, 4:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-all-occurrences-of-a-shard-be-deleted-can-all-occurrences-of-a-shard-primary-and-replica-s-be-re-routed-to-same-node/54966 "2016-07-07T16:00:26Z")
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### Author: ![Karthick\_Vinod\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/839c29/32.png) [@Karthick\_Vinod\_L](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Karthick_Vinod_L)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2016, 5:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-all-occurrences-of-a-shard-be-deleted-can-all-occurrences-of-a-shard-primary-and-replica-s-be-re-routed-to-same-node/54966/3 "2016-07-07T17:58:56Z")

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I want to do this to get rid of this problem : [Cluster becomes unresponsive and cluster health becomes yellow](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cluster-becomes-unresponsive-and-cluster-health-becomes-yellow/54980)

To delete the shard "62" which is causing whole cluster to become unresponsive.  
I am fine with re-indexing all documents in shard 62. But, I don't want to delete whole index.

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