# Directory growing after restarting of one node

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/directory-growing-after-restarting-of-one-node/86628>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 22, 2017, 8:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/directory-growing-after-restarting-of-one-node/86628 "2017-05-22T08:52:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![immanens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@immanens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/immanens)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 8:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/directory-growing-after-restarting-of-one-node/86628/1 "2017-05-22T08:52:58Z")

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Hi,  
I've 2 nodes version 1.5.2 under debian stable (8.7) .  
I just migration storage of esnode by doing a (stupid) copy after shuting down the node. there is no indexing operations during the copy. the copy took 1 day.

when I start the node this morning, I saw intense network traffics between 2nodes and the node whom I migrated the storage is making grow up esnode folder. it is becoming much more bigger then the other's.  
should I let it finish off what they are doing? or, just remove all files and restart the node, which makes a full resync between 2 nodes and it take 1 more day?

thanks for yours helps  
regards  
curl 'localhost:9200/\_cluster/health?level=indices&pretty'

{  
"cluster\_name" : "my-secret-cluster1",  
"status" : "yellow",  
"timed\_out" : false,  
"number\_of\_nodes" : 2,  
"number\_of\_data\_nodes" : 2,  
"active\_primary\_shards" : 5,  
"active\_shards" : 5,  
"relocating\_shards" : 0,  
"initializing\_shards" : 2,  
"unassigned\_shards" : 3,  
"number\_of\_pending\_tasks" : 0,  
"indices" : {  
"secret-prod" : {  
"status" : "yellow",  
"number\_of\_shards" : 5,  
"number\_of\_replicas" : 1,  
"active\_primary\_shards" : 5,  
"active\_shards" : 5,  
"relocating\_shards" : 0,  
"initializing\_shards" : 2,  
"unassigned\_shards" : 3  
}  
}  
}

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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:** [May 22, 2017, 8:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/directory-growing-after-restarting-of-one-node/86628/2 "2017-05-22T08:55:15Z")

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You should 1) upgrade ASAP, and 2) just leave it. It's syncing and given you are on such an old version, it'll take a while.

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**Author:** ![immanens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@immanens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/immanens)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 9:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/directory-growing-after-restarting-of-one-node/86628/3 "2017-05-22T09:01:04Z")

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ok. I choose debian packaged version. If I SHOULD put a newer version, it's not a problem for me.  
the problem is the folder is growing up quickly, I wonder why it's doing that, and I hope It will not take as big as the original size, I don't have double of 624Go on my iscsi LUN !

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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:** [June 19, 2017, 9:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/directory-growing-after-restarting-of-one-node/86628/4 "2017-06-19T09:01:15Z")

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