# Disk space /var **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [September 12, 2018, 6:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disk-space-var/148369 "2018-09-12T18:57:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nandha\_88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3e96dc/32.png) [@nandha\_88](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nandha_88)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 6:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disk-space-var/148369/1 "2018-09-12T18:57:16Z")
Hi, The var folder is full ELK server. fully indices and please tell a method to remove it /dev/sda1 950M 181M 770M 19% /boot /dev/mapper/rhel\_-var 187G 174G 13G 94% /var tmpfs 3.2G 0 3.2G 0% /run/user/0 [root@test /var/lib/elasticsearch/nodes/0/indices]# pwd /var/lib/elasticsearch/nodes/0/indices [root@test/var/lib/elasticsearch/nodes/0/indices]# cd .. [root@test /var/lib/elasticsearch/nodes/0]# du -sh \* 160G indices 0 node.lock 64K \_state [root@test /var/lib/elasticsearch/nodes/0]# cd indices/ [root@test /var/lib/elasticsearch/nodes/0/indices]# ls -l total 0 drwxr-xr-x 8 elasticsearch elasticsearch 59 Sep 10 08:01 0A4uez4xRTuoaYUd6POzPQ drwxr-xr-x 8 elasticsearch elasticsearch 59 Sep 10 08:02 0bpeo8rNQHS9nWFwoZBw\_w drwxr-xr-x 8 elasticsearch elasticsearch 59 Sep 10 08:02 0HJl627SQfeSm500PBaArQ drwxr-xr-x 8 elasticsearch elasticsearch 59 Sep 10 08:01 0Il9IXh2QQ673rlFnnmbWw drwxr-xr-x 8 elasticsearch elasticsearch 59 Sep 10 08:01 0\_IotDmrTJGRKFp6Em0i4g drwxr-xr-x 8 elasticsearch elasticsearch 59 Sep 10 08:02 0LSCvgsxQY-sbdDfElHiIw drwxr-xr-x 8 elasticsearch elasticsearch 59 Sep 10 08:02 0qDtei2ZRi-rsdDmNz3WHA drwxr-xr-x 8 elasticsearch elasticsearch 59 Sep 10 08:02 0RIug2vcSSW7XWl424wtHA ---
**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:** [September 12, 2018, 8:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disk-space-var/148369/2 "2018-09-12T20:24:46Z")
You need to use the Elasticsearch APIs to delete indices you no longer want. ---
**Author:** ![nandha\_88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3e96dc/32.png) [@nandha\_88](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nandha_88)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 4:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disk-space-var/148369/3 "2018-09-14T16:04:43Z")
Thanks Warklom curl -XGET [http://localhost:9200/\_cat/indices?v](http://localhost:9200/_cat/indices?v) curl -XDELETE [http://localhost:9200/logstash-date](http://localhost:9200/logstash-date) This two commands helped me to remove the indices REgards Nandh ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2018, 4:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disk-space-var/148369/4 "2018-10-12T16:04:57Z")
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