# ES 2.1 shards stuck in translog recovery

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-2-1-shards-stuck-in-translog-recovery/35716>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 27, 2015, 8:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-2-1-shards-stuck-in-translog-recovery/35716 "2015-11-27T08:01:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![emptyemail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6de8d8/32.png) [@emptyemail](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/emptyemail)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 5:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-2-1-shards-stuck-in-translog-recovery/35716/8 "2015-12-04T17:47:01Z")

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I had a similar issue, where my shards would take forever to relocate when the cluster is grown or shrunk, flushing all shards via `/_flush` solved the problem for me.

Doesn't it take make sense to flush the shard before trying to replicate it somewhere? I had shards with translogs over 1gig?

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