# I deleted index like files into OS when I had a diskspace problem and now have to fix it
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-deleted-index-like-files-into-os-when-i-had-a-diskspace-problem-and-now-have-to-fix-it/294558
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [January 17, 2022, 9:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-deleted-index-like-files-into-os-when-i-had-a-diskspace-problem-and-now-have-to-fix-it/294558 "2022-01-17T09:24:11Z")
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### Author:  [@marlybyliganget](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/marlybyliganget)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2022, 9:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-deleted-index-like-files-into-os-when-i-had-a-diskspace-problem-and-now-have-to-fix-it/294558/1 "2022-01-17T09:24:11Z")
Hi guys
I have a problem with Elasticsearch cluster
I deleted index like files into OS, when I had a diskspace problem
I deleted index through this command `find ./data/nodes/0/indices -type d -mtime +30 -exec rm -rf {} \;`
What I have:
One node elastic cluster
And now have this problem:
1. When I sent` curl -XGET "localhost:9200/_cat/shards" | grep "UNASSIGNED" | wc -l`
UNASSIGNED idexes - 1780
STARTED indexes - 143
2. When I sent `curl --user elastic:elastic -XGET localhost:9200/_cat/health?v`
have a response:
{"error":{"root\_cause":[{"type":"security\_exception","reason":"unable to authenticate user [elastic] for REST request [/\_cat/health?v]","header":{"WWW-Authenticate":"Basic realm="security" charset="UTF-8""}}],"type":"security\_exception","reason":"unable to authenticate user [elastic] for REST request [/\_cat/health?v]","header":{"WWW-Authenticate":"Basic realm="security" charset="UTF-8""}},"status":401}
3)I created new user bin/Elasticsearch-users useradd newadmin -p PASSWORD -r superuser
for restoring elaatic password
But when I sent request for changing password have this message:
Request:
```auto
curl -s --user [new user with superuser role] -XPUT "http://localhost:9200/_xpack/security/user/elastic/_password?pretty" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '
{
"password" : "PASSWORD"
}'
```
Answer:
```auto
{
"error" : {
"root_cause" : [
{
"type" : "unavailable_shards_exception",
"reason" : "[.security-7][0] [1] shardIt, [0] active : Timeout waiting for [1m], request: indices:data/write/update"
}
],
"type" : "unavailable_shards_exception",
"reason" : "[.security-7][0] [1] shardIt, [0] active : Timeout waiting for [1m], request: indices:data/write/update"
},
"status" : 503
}
```
Request for showing cluster health:
`curl -XGET --user [new user with superuser role] 'localhost:9200/_cat/health?v'`
```auto
epoch timestamp cluster status node.total node.data shards pri relo init unassign pending_tasks max_task_wait_time active_shards_percent
1642410739 09:12:19 rule-engine-prod red 1 1 143 143 0 0 1780 0 - 7.4%
```
Request for showing allocation:
`curl -XGET --user [new user with superuser role] 'localhost:9200/_cat/allocation?v'`
```auto
shards disk.indices disk.used disk.avail disk.total disk.percent host ip node
143 63.8gb 93gb 299.7gb 392.7gb 23 10.44.0.125 10.44.0.125 rule-engine-whg3
1780 UNASSIGNED
```
Please help me, How can I fix it?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2022, 9:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-deleted-index-like-files-into-os-when-i-had-a-diskspace-problem-and-now-have-to-fix-it/294558/2 "2022-01-17T09:31:10Z")
You have likely lost the data, which is why you should ALWAYS use the APIs to delete indices.
The only way to recover would be to restore a backup, or reindex the data.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2022, 9:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-deleted-index-like-files-into-os-when-i-had-a-diskspace-problem-and-now-have-to-fix-it/294558/3 "2022-02-14T09:31:31Z")
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