# Elasticsearch disk usage issue **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [August 31, 2022, 9:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-disk-usage-issue/313338 "2022-08-31T09:39:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![xalastoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/53a042/32.png) [@xalastoi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/xalastoi)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2022, 9:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-disk-usage-issue/313338/1 "2022-08-31T09:39:36Z")
Hello! i have a strange issue in my elasticsearch cluster so i have 5 nodes ( 4 data and masters and 1 master only node ) so each node has 5.7 tb disk space on it but on the first node my disk is almost completely full, and on the rest it is half full the number of shards on all nodes is approximately the same df -h from first node ```auto /dev/mapper/vg1-data 5.8T 5.1T 717G 88% /var/lib/elasticsearch ``` and here is /cat/shards output ```auto shards disk.indices disk.used disk.avail disk.total disk.percent host ip node 354 5tb 5tb 714.9gb 5.7tb 87 10.0.5.21 10.0.5.21 elastic-01 392 3.2tb 3.2tb 2.5tb 5.7tb 55 10.0.5.23 10.0.5.23 elastic-02 393 3.8tb 3.8tb 1.8tb 5.7tb 67 10.0.5.28 10.0.5.28 elastic-07 392 3.9tb 3.9tb 1.7tb 5.7tb 69 10.0.5.27 10.0.5.27 elastic-06 ``` i tried summing the results from cat/shards | grep elastic-01 and it turned out that all shards on this node occupy 3.5 tb but why does both elastic and du -hs show that more space is being used? du -hs inside /var/lib/elasticsearch shows 5.1 tb too ```auto du-hs* 5.1T nodes 4.0K range ``` ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 9:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-disk-usage-issue/313338/2 "2022-09-28T09:39:43Z")
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