# Failed to merge - There is not enough space on the disk
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-merge-there-is-not-enough-space-on-the-disk/18384
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 29, 2014, 10:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-merge-there-is-not-enough-space-on-the-disk/18384 "2014-06-29T10:37:20Z")
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### Author:  [@Ophir\_Michaeli](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ophir_Michaeli)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2014, 10:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-merge-there-is-not-enough-space-on-the-disk/18384/1 "2014-06-29T10:37:20Z")
Hi,
I get an error -
failed to merge java.io.IOException: There is not enough space on the disk.
The disk was full, cleaned it now.
What is the best way not to loose what I already indexed? Or does this
error mean that the index is lost and I need to delete and index again?
Thanks,
Ophir
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### Author:  [@Itamar\_Syn\_Hershko](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Itamar_Syn_Hershko)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2014, 11:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-merge-there-is-not-enough-space-on-the-disk/18384/2 "2014-06-29T11:51:45Z")
This error means indexing has stopped at one point, up to that point
everything is preserved.
See
> **[Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale](https://www.elastic.co)**
>
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for how to avoid this from now on
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On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Ophir Michaeli [ophirmichaeli@gmail.com](mailto:ophirmichaeli@gmail.com)
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I get an error -
> failed to merge java.io.IOException: There is not enough space on the disk.
> The disk was full, cleaned it now.
> What is the best way not to loose what I already indexed? Or does this
> error mean that the index is lost and I need to delete and index again?
>
> Thanks,
> Ophir
>
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### Author:  [@Ophir\_Michaeli](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ophir_Michaeli)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2014, 2:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-merge-there-is-not-enough-space-on-the-disk/18384/3 "2014-06-29T14:25:29Z")
Hi,
I restarted elasticesaerch node and the ES console screen shows no error,
but I can't connect to the node (with REST I get "503 Service Unavailable").
Is the index corrupt?
Thanks!
On Sunday, June 29, 2014 2:51:56 PM UTC+3, Itamar Syn-Hershko wrote:
> This error means indexing has stopped at one point, up to that point
> everything is preserved.
>
> See
> [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index-modules-allocation.html#disk)
> for how to avoid this from now on
>
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>
> Itamar Syn-Hershko
> [http://code972.com](http://code972.com) | @synhershko [https://twitter.com/synhershko](https://twitter.com/synhershko)
> Freelance Developer & Consultant
> Author of RavenDB in Action [http://manning.com/synhershko/](http://manning.com/synhershko/)
>
> On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Ophir Michaeli \<[ophirm...@gmail.com](mailto:ophirm...@gmail.com)
> \\> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I get an error -
> > failed to merge java.io.IOException: There is not enough space on the
> > disk.
> > The disk was full, cleaned it now.
> > What is the best way not to loose what I already indexed? Or does this
> > error mean that the index is lost and I need to delete and index again?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ophir
> >
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### Author:  [@Itamar\_Syn\_Hershko](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Itamar_Syn_Hershko)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2014, 2:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-merge-there-is-not-enough-space-on-the-disk/18384/4 "2014-06-29T14:27:15Z")
If it was corrupted you would have seen other errors, not 503. Check your
network settings.
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On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Ophir Michaeli [ophirmichaeli@gmail.com](mailto:ophirmichaeli@gmail.com)
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I restarted elasticesaerch node and the ES console screen shows no error,
> but I can't connect to the node (with REST I get "503 Service Unavailable
> ").
> Is the index corrupt?
>
> Thanks!
>
> On Sunday, June 29, 2014 2:51:56 PM UTC+3, Itamar Syn-Hershko wrote:
>
> > This error means indexing has stopped at one point, up to that point
> > everything is preserved.
> >
> > See [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/)
> > reference/current/index-modules-allocation.html#disk for how to avoid
> > this from now on
> >
> > --
> >
> > Itamar Syn-Hershko
> > [http://code972.com](http://code972.com) | @synhershko [https://twitter.com/synhershko](https://twitter.com/synhershko)
> > Freelance Developer & Consultant
> > Author of RavenDB in Action [http://manning.com/synhershko/](http://manning.com/synhershko/)
> >
> > On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Ophir Michaeli [ophirm...@gmail.com](mailto:ophirm...@gmail.com)
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I get an error -
> > > failed to merge java.io.IOException: There is not enough space on the
> > > disk.
> > > The disk was full, cleaned it now.
> > > What is the best way not to loose what I already indexed? Or does this
> > > error mean that the index is lost and I need to delete and index again?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Ophir
> > >
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### Author:  [@Ophir\_Michaeli](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ophir_Michaeli)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2014, 3:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-merge-there-is-not-enough-space-on-the-disk/18384/5 "2014-06-29T15:24:27Z")
It looks like it takes some time for the node to get back to normal, it
works now. thanks
On Sunday, June 29, 2014 5:27:21 PM UTC+3, Itamar Syn-Hershko wrote:
> If it was corrupted you would have seen other errors, not 503. Check your
> network settings.
>
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> Itamar Syn-Hershko
> [http://code972.com](http://code972.com) | @synhershko [https://twitter.com/synhershko](https://twitter.com/synhershko)
> Freelance Developer & Consultant
> Author of RavenDB in Action [http://manning.com/synhershko/](http://manning.com/synhershko/)
>
> On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Ophir Michaeli \<[ophirm...@gmail.com](mailto:ophirm...@gmail.com)
> \\> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I restarted elasticesaerch node and the ES console screen shows no error,
> > but I can't connect to the node (with REST I get "503 Service Unavailable
> > ").
> > Is the index corrupt?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > On Sunday, June 29, 2014 2:51:56 PM UTC+3, Itamar Syn-Hershko wrote:
> >
> > > This error means indexing has stopped at one point, up to that point
> > > everything is preserved.
> > >
> > > See [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/)
> > > reference/current/index-modules-allocation.html#disk for how to avoid
> > > this from now on
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > Itamar Syn-Hershko
> > > [http://code972.com](http://code972.com) | @synhershko [https://twitter.com/synhershko](https://twitter.com/synhershko)
> > > Freelance Developer & Consultant
> > > Author of RavenDB in Action [http://manning.com/synhershko/](http://manning.com/synhershko/)
> > >
> > > On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Ophir Michaeli [ophirm...@gmail.com](mailto:ophirm...@gmail.com)
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I get an error -
> > > > failed to merge java.io.IOException: There is not enough space on the
> > > > disk.
> > > > The disk was full, cleaned it now.
> > > > What is the best way not to loose what I already indexed? Or does this
> > > > error mean that the index is lost and I need to delete and index again?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Ophir
> > > >
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### Author:  [@Jorge\_Luis\_Betancour](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jorge_Luis_Betancour)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2014, 12:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-merge-there-is-not-enough-space-on-the-disk/18384/6 "2014-06-30T00:48:11Z")
This usually means that the merge operation failed correct? With ES we must apply kind of the same rule as Solr for merge? 2x or 3x (worst case scenario ever) index size as available space to avoid this?
Greetings
On Jun 29, 2014, at 6:37 AM, Ophir Michaeli [ophirmichaeli@gmail.com](mailto:ophirmichaeli@gmail.com) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I get an error -
> failed to merge java.io.IOException: There is not enough space on the disk.
> The disk was full, cleaned it now.
> What is the best way not to loose what I already indexed? Or does this error mean that the index is lost and I need to delete and index again?
>
> Thanks,
> Ophir
>
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-merge-there-is-not-enough-space-on-the-disk/18384/7 "2017-07-06T01:19:06Z")