# Elasticearch reports wrong low disk condition
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticearch-reports-wrong-low-disk-condition/25750
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [July 16, 2015, 8:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticearch-reports-wrong-low-disk-condition/25750 "2015-07-16T20:56:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@bluethundr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bluethundr)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2015, 8:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticearch-reports-wrong-low-disk-condition/25750/1 "2015-07-16T20:56:12Z")
Hi guys.
OK I'm having an unusul problem with Elasticsearch. Where it's reporting a low disk condition on one of the nodes. And it keeps reporting low disk conditions even after I've cleared out enough disk space by deleting / gzipping old log files. And it continues to do so even after restarting the elastic search service on all nodes.
Here's the complaint in the logs:
```
[2015-07-16 16:50:20,402][INFO][cluster.routing.allocation.decider] [JF_ES1] low disk watermark [85%] exceeded on [TswNkBU1QE2_Q_ZAR_Lprg][JF_ES2] free: 2.4gb[12.4%], replicas will not be assigned to this node
```
I've installed and setup Marvel. And it's reporting the exact same thing! 2.4GB free of disk space on node 2.
But when I take a look at the real conditions on the disk with the df command, I see a different story on that node:
```
[root@es2:~] #df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vda1 20G 17G 3.1G 85% /
devtmpfs 742M 0 742M 0% /dev
tmpfs 750M 0 750M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 750M 81M 669M 11% /run
tmpfs 750M 0 750M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
nfs1.example.com:/var/nfs/home 20G 12G 6.9G 64% /home
```
So what's going on with that log message and the message in the marvel kibana interface? How do I correct this?
Thanks,
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### Author:  [@msimos](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/msimos)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2015, 9:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticearch-reports-wrong-low-disk-condition/25750/2 "2015-07-16T21:11:03Z")
Where do you have your Elasticsearch data? The log message shows:
> [@bluethundr](#):
>
> low disk watermark [85%] exceeded
And df -h shows at ~85% for /:
> [@bluethundr](#):
>
> /dev/vda1 20G 17G 3.1G 85% /
You should try to reduce it below 85% and still see it reports the same.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 12:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticearch-reports-wrong-low-disk-condition/25750/3 "2017-07-06T00:00:55Z")