# Large \_snapshot directories on disk

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/large-snapshot-directories-on-disk/211988>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 16, 2019, 11:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/large-snapshot-directories-on-disk/211988 "2019-12-16T11:12:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![rick1933](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b5ac83/32.png) [@rick1933](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rick1933)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2019, 11:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/large-snapshot-directories-on-disk/211988/1 "2019-12-16T11:12:59Z")

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Hello,

A month ago i tested the source only snapshot (S3 repo with ES 7.4.1). At the end i decided not to use it but now i have large \_snapshot directories on my disk. They use about 25% of my disk space.

```
[root@es01 0]# du -skh *
19G index
6.1G _snapshot
12K _state
12K translog

```

I think they are temp directories for the source only snapshot? Are those directories automatically removed by elastic or can i remove them myself without breaking anything?

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**Author:** ![Armin\_Braun](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/armin_braun/32/20092_2.png) [@Armin\_Braun](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Armin_Braun)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2019, 1:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/large-snapshot-directories-on-disk/211988/2 "2019-12-16T13:25:00Z")

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Hi @rick1933 I briefly investigated this issue and it seems we have a bug there. I opened [https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/50231](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/50231) to track and fix it.  
If you aren't going to use the source only snapshots feature for now it should be safe to delete this directory as a workaround for the time being.  
That said, I would still recommend to take a normal snapshot before doing that kind of manual operation on your node's data directories just to be on the safe side.

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**Author:** ![rick1933](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b5ac83/32.png) [@rick1933](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rick1933)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2019, 2:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/large-snapshot-directories-on-disk/211988/3 "2019-12-16T14:19:31Z")

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Thank you for your investigation, i will delete the directories after my weekly snapshot.

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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:** [January 13, 2020, 2:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/large-snapshot-directories-on-disk/211988/4 "2020-01-13T14:19:40Z")

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