# How to redistribute the existing data

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-redistribute-the-existing-data/115972>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 18, 2018, 5:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-redistribute-the-existing-data/115972 "2018-01-18T05:09:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![huajing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/977dab/32.png) [@huajing](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/huajing)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2018, 5:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-redistribute-the-existing-data/115972/1 "2018-01-18T05:09:54Z")

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My elasticsearch server is 1.7.5 ,it has 4 nodes, node1 and node2 are masters ,node2 have 170G data and node4 only have 41G data . how to redistribute the existing data?

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**Author:** ![s1monw](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/s1monw/32/3637_2.png) [@s1monw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/s1monw)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 1:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-redistribute-the-existing-data/115972/2 "2018-01-19T13:14:50Z")

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this documentation might help you further [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/modules-cluster.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/modules-cluster.html)

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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 16, 2018, 1:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-redistribute-the-existing-data/115972/3 "2018-02-16T13:15:17Z")

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