# Elastic search recover index

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-recover-index/152178>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 12, 2018, 7:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-recover-index/152178 "2018-10-12T07:25:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![shaheryar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@shaheryar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shaheryar)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2018, 7:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-recover-index/152178/1 "2018-10-12T07:25:48Z")

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when the disk size used goes above 90% elastic search index goes into read only mode. how to recover it?

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**Author:** ![dakrone](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dakrone/32/23351_2.png) [@dakrone](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dakrone)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2018, 3:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-recover-index/152178/2 "2018-10-14T03:26:13Z")

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You should be able to unset it with the index-level setting like so:

```auto
PUT /foo/_settings
{
  "index.blocks.read_only_allow_delete": false
}

```

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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:** [November 11, 2018, 3:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-recover-index/152178/3 "2018-11-11T03:26:14Z")

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