# Es 5.0 - reshard index
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-5-0-reshard-index/64854
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 3, 2016, 11:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-5-0-reshard-index/64854 "2016-11-03T11:44:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Mikello](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mikello)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2016, 11:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-5-0-reshard-index/64854/1 "2016-11-03T11:44:22Z")
Hello,
is it possible to reshard old index to new using reindex API?
My index has 5 shards and i want to change it to 2. I tried diffrent combinations using "number\_of\_shards" but without good result.
curl -XPOST 'localhost:9200/\_reindex?pretty' -d'{
"source": {
"index": "test"
},
"dest": {
"index": "test\_new",
"number\_of\_shards": "2"
}
}'
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2016, 11:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-5-0-reshard-index/64854/2 "2016-11-03T11:59:21Z")
Just create the new index first with new settings (number of shards) then launch reindex task to this index.
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### Author:  [@Mikello](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mikello)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2016, 12:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-5-0-reshard-index/64854/3 "2016-11-03T12:34:17Z")
It's working, thanks!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 10:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-5-0-reshard-index/64854/4 "2017-07-05T22:06:57Z")