# Every shards are unassigned **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [November 9, 2014, 11:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/every-shards-are-unassigned/20656 "2014-11-09T23:03:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Marcus\_Park](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@Marcus\_Park](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marcus_Park)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2014, 11:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/every-shards-are-unassigned/20656/1 "2014-11-09T23:03:35Z")
I have over 800 indices and 3 nodes of a cluster, but after i killed a node at loading time, all the shards are to be unassigned. I shutdown all the nodes and started 1 of each node but nodes not bounded for the cluster and still all the shards are unassigned. How can assign the all shards as primary? any idea? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/b82bb43c-e341-489e-ad78-3192d8d755e5%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/b82bb43c-e341-489e-ad78-3192d8d755e5%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 12:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/every-shards-are-unassigned/20656/2 "2017-07-06T00:51:13Z")
Closed on July 6, 2017, 12:51am UTC