# Delete Index Settings

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-index-settings/27067>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 7, 2015, 9:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-index-settings/27067 "2015-08-07T21:02:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![vilas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vilas/32/613_2.png) [@vilas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vilas)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2015, 9:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-index-settings/27067/1 "2015-08-07T21:02:26Z")

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Hi,

I was trying to update the index settings of kibana-int index with blocks.read\_only to true.

```auto
{
      "index" : { 
          "blocks.read_only" : false
      }
}

```

Instead I mistakenly did this:

```auto
{
      "index" : { 
          "index.blocks.read_only" : false
      }
}

```

So, my settings are looking like this currently:

```auto
{
	kibana-int: {
		settings: {
			index: {
				index: {
					blocks: {
						write: false
						read_only: false
					}
				}
				blocks: {
					write: false
					read_only: false
				}
				uuid: hrUNUO3_TsSxJLrDdwXQ6A
				number_of_replicas: 1
				number_of_shards: 5
				version: {
					created: 1010199
				}
			}
		}
	}
}

```

I am able to modify index.block entries to true/false.  
But how can I delete the index.blocks entries permanently from the index settings?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2015, 2:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-index-settings/27067/2 "2015-08-08T14:45:53Z")

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Deleting cluster settings is currently impossible (see [bug #6732](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/6732)) and I suspect the same applies to index settings.

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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 5, 2017, 11:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-index-settings/27067/3 "2017-07-05T23:56:41Z")

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