# Delete indices

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-indices/96877>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 13, 2017, 1:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-indices/96877 "2017-08-13T13:23:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Nassi\_Harel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nassi_harel/32/13282_2.png) [@Nassi\_Harel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nassi_Harel)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2017, 1:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-indices/96877/1 "2017-08-13T13:23:09Z")

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I am using an ES cluster (2 clients, 5 data nodes, 3 master nodes) with mounted volumes to NFS...  
When I delete old indices (using sense) I see they are actually deleted, but after I restart the ES cluster, I see that the old indices come back again with red status and the explain API says something like: "unassigned\_shards exist in the cluster state, but cannot be found in the cluster itself"

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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:** [August 13, 2017, 10:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-indices/96877/2 "2017-08-13T22:59:02Z")

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> [@Nassi\_Harel](#):
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> mounted volumes to NFS

Are you running NFS directly, or you have LUNs that you mount on the OS that are then formatted to whatever.

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**Author:** ![Nassi\_Harel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nassi_harel/32/13282_2.png) [@Nassi\_Harel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nassi_Harel)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2017, 6:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-indices/96877/3 "2017-08-14T06:51:47Z")

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The 5 data nodes write directly to NFS that inside NetApp

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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:** [August 14, 2017, 8:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-indices/96877/4 "2017-08-14T08:11:02Z")

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Is the Netapp doing anything special then? If you delete them from Elasticsearch they should be gone.

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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:** [September 11, 2017, 8:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/delete-indices/96877/5 "2017-09-11T08:11:12Z")

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