# Elasticsearch.2.1.1 no of shard Settings

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-2-1-1-no-of-shard-settings/37825>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 23, 2015, 7:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-2-1-1-no-of-shard-settings/37825 "2015-12-23T07:26:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![krish0608](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/krish0608/32/6797_2.png) [@krish0608](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/krish0608)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 7:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-2-1-1-no-of-shard-settings/37825/1 "2015-12-23T07:26:36Z")

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hey, I want to change my Default no of shard in Es 2.1.1 version...but i am not getting any option in elasticsearch.yml file.

So i tried while creating index its showing me this error.

PUT kk

PUT kk/\_settings  
{  
"number\_of\_shards": 20  
}

{  
"error": {  
"root\_cause": [  
{  
"type": "illegal\_argument\_exception",  
"reason": "can't change the number of shards for an index"  
}  
],  
"type": "illegal\_argument\_exception",  
"reason": "can't change the number of shards for an index"  
},  
"status": 400

Please help me out.

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**Author:** ![krish0608](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/krish0608/32/6797_2.png) [@krish0608](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/krish0608)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 7:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-2-1-1-no-of-shard-settings/37825/2 "2015-12-23T07:30:41Z")

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it resolved

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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:** [December 23, 2015, 9:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-2-1-1-no-of-shard-settings/37825/3 "2015-12-23T21:52:41Z")

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How did you resolve it?

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**Author:** ![mosiddi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mosiddi/32/577_2.png) [@mosiddi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mosiddi)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2015, 11:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-2-1-1-no-of-shard-settings/37825/4 "2015-12-27T11:10:38Z")

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interesting... we can't change # of shards dynamically for an index... how u solved it?

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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:** [December 27, 2015, 8:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-2-1-1-no-of-shard-settings/37825/5 "2015-12-27T20:05:03Z")

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You can't on 2.X either, no idea what the "solution" was here....

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**Author:** ![Soundarya\_Thiagaraja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@Soundarya\_Thiagaraja](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Soundarya_Thiagaraja)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2016, 9:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-2-1-1-no-of-shard-settings/37825/6 "2016-09-14T09:50:29Z")

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I am facing same issue. could you please tell how did you resolve it?

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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:** [July 5, 2017, 10:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-2-1-1-no-of-shard-settings/37825/7 "2017-07-05T22:20:20Z")

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