# Elasticsearch unassigned shards

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-unassigned-shards/241296>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 15, 2020, 12:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-unassigned-shards/241296 "2020-07-15T12:57:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 1:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-unassigned-shards/241296/3 "2020-07-15T13:26:40Z")

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All 3 nodes are master & data & ingest. Thanks for your fast response!  
I guess I found a similar situation here [Old stale shards in path.data](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/old-stale-shards-in-path-data/240637).

The only thing I cannot understand why the old shards are not being seen by the cluster or deleted, because the space appear to be used.

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