# Elasticsearch clusterstate data
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-clusterstate-data/292392
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [December 19, 2021, 8:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-clusterstate-data/292392 "2021-12-19T08:56:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@qixian](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/qixian)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2021, 8:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-clusterstate-data/292392/1 "2021-12-19T08:56:10Z")
hello,I have a question need to have a answer，which is if my master es nodes have multi datapaths,the clusterstate data will be saved Multiple and which is Exactly the same
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2021, 12:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-clusterstate-data/292392/2 "2021-12-20T00:46:03Z")
Cluster state is stored _once_ per node.
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### Author:  [@qixian](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/qixian)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2021, 1:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-clusterstate-data/292392/3 "2021-12-20T13:38:56Z")
is that master node's multi data path has the same cluster state data?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2021, 10:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-clusterstate-data/292392/4 "2021-12-20T22:04:52Z")
What do you mean sorry?
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### Author:  [@qixian](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/qixian)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2021, 1:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-clusterstate-data/292392/5 "2021-12-21T01:52:24Z")
my Elasticsearch nodes has configed multi data path,and the master node also has multidata path,then i find the master node every data path has the '\_state',I just want to konw wether the '\_state' dir has the same data?just like the below picture the master node has two path data01 and data02 which both has '\_state' dir,Do they have the same data？
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2021, 2:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-clusterstate-data/292392/6 "2021-12-21T02:01:10Z")
That's the state of the shard, not the cluster state.
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### Author:  [@qixian](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/qixian)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2021, 5:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-clusterstate-data/292392/7 "2021-12-22T05:14:29Z")
that is my master node data path,I have another problem,if I delete the all nodes clusterstate data file,wether the indices can be recoveried from its data nodes path?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2021, 5:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-clusterstate-data/292392/8 "2021-12-22T05:15:40Z")
Why would you do that though?
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### Author:  [@qixian](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/qixian)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2021, 5:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-clusterstate-data/292392/9 "2021-12-22T05:42:15Z")
because when elected master,the candidate master has diffent term,I want to delete the clusterstate data to have a try
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2021, 5:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-clusterstate-data/292392/10 "2021-12-22T05:43:01Z")
You are likely going to cause major issues for yourself doing this, and it's not something we support.
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### Author:  [@qixian](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/qixian)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2021, 5:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-clusterstate-data/292392/11 "2021-12-22T05:44:14Z")
thanks , I see
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### Author:  [@DavidTurner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DavidTurner)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2021, 8:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-clusterstate-data/292392/12 "2021-12-22T08:22:03Z")
See [these docs](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/modules-node.html#data-path) for more information:
> **WARNING** : Don’t modify anything within the data directory or run processes that might interfere with its contents. If something other than Elasticsearch modifies the contents of the data directory, then Elasticsearch may fail, reporting corruption or other data inconsistencies, or may appear to work correctly having silently lost some of your data.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2022, 8:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-clusterstate-data/292392/13 "2022-01-19T08:22:43Z")
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