# How to balance shards based on disk space utilization

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-balance-shards-based-on-disk-space-utilization/108052>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 17, 2017, 3:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-balance-shards-based-on-disk-space-utilization/108052 "2017-11-17T03:26:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![mario12](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mario12/32/29324_2.png) [@mario12](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mario12)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2017, 3:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-balance-shards-based-on-disk-space-utilization/108052/1 "2017-11-17T03:26:30Z")

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in our current 2.4 es cluster all nodes has equal no. of shards. But, there are nodes which has very less disk space utilization (25% of nodes). Rest of the nodes (75%) has high disk utilization. Is there a settings that allow us to balance shards based on disk space utilization so all the nodes will have similar disk utilization

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2017, 3:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-balance-shards-based-on-disk-space-utilization/108052/2 "2017-11-17T03:45:29Z")

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There's not, it's shard count based.

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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:** [December 15, 2017, 3:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-balance-shards-based-on-disk-space-utilization/108052/3 "2017-12-15T03:45:36Z")

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