# How do I clear the disk space once I delete the Document Indexed i.e. I need to ExpungeDeletedDocuments please suggest

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**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 11, 2017, 7:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-clear-the-disk-space-once-i-delete-the-document-indexed-i-e-i-need-to-expungedeleteddocuments-please-suggest/71186 "2017-01-11T07:59:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Amar\_Srivastava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@Amar\_Srivastava](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Amar_Srivastava)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 7:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-clear-the-disk-space-once-i-delete-the-document-indexed-i-e-i-need-to-expungedeleteddocuments-please-suggest/71186/1 "2017-01-11T07:59:41Z")

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I am able to delete the document but how do I clear the disk how do I perform the ExpungeDeletedDocuments in [asp.net](http://asp.net) for the elastic search and I need to run this for once after all the operation are completed to make sure that disk are cleaned, please suggest.

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**Author:** ![Amar\_Srivastava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@Amar\_Srivastava](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Amar_Srivastava)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 9:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-clear-the-disk-space-once-i-delete-the-document-indexed-i-e-i-need-to-expungedeleteddocuments-please-suggest/71186/3 "2017-01-11T09:25:42Z")

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@Ravi_Shanker_Reddy thanks for you suggestion but I am sorry I didn't get your mean, could you please elaborate it a little more.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 9:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-clear-the-disk-space-once-i-delete-the-document-indexed-i-e-i-need-to-expungedeleteddocuments-please-suggest/71186/4 "2017-02-08T09:25:58Z")

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