# Corrupted segment **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [March 27, 2012, 4:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/corrupted-segment/7140 "2012-03-27T04:53:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jacque74](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4af34b/32.png) [@jacque74](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jacque74)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 4:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/corrupted-segment/7140/1 "2012-03-27T04:53:12Z")
Hello, I got a corrupted segment on ES (one of the segment files is not readable), -- is it possible to delete that segment, its very small, and recover that way? -jack ---
**Author:** ![kimchy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kimchy/32/44952_2.png) [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 1:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/corrupted-segment/7140/2 "2012-03-27T13:20:09Z")
You could run the Lucene check index utility against the index and delete the mentioned segment? On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 6:53 AM, Jack Levin [magnito@gmail.com](mailto:magnito@gmail.com) wrote: > Hello, I got a corrupted segment on ES (one of the segment files is > not readable), -- is it possible to delete that segment, its very > small, and recover that way? > > -jack ---
**Author:** ![jacque74](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4af34b/32.png) [@jacque74](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jacque74)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 5:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/corrupted-segment/7140/3 "2012-03-28T05:05:31Z")
That helped, thanks. On Mar 27, 6:20 am, Shay Banon [kim...@gmail.com](mailto:kim...@gmail.com) wrote: > You could run the Lucene check index utility against the index and delete > the mentioned segment? > > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 6:53 AM, Jack Levin [magn...@gmail.com](mailto:magn...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > Hello, I got a corrupted segment on ES (one of the segment files is > > not readable), -- is it possible to delete that segment, its very > > small, and recover that way? > > > -jack ---
**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, 3:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/corrupted-segment/7140/4 "2017-07-06T03:34:30Z")