# Manual delete of indices on elastic search not freeing up space
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manual-delete-of-indices-on-elastic-search-not-freeing-up-space/279686
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [July 27, 2021, 4:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manual-delete-of-indices-on-elastic-search-not-freeing-up-space/279686 "2021-07-27T04:58:55Z")
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### Author:  [@save4elastic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/save4elastic)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2021, 4:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manual-delete-of-indices-on-elastic-search-not-freeing-up-space/279686/1 "2021-07-27T04:58:55Z")
I have 2TB of indices. It just hit the flood stage watermark. I resolved this via CURL and now it allows manually deleting some indices. It removes them from Kibana, etc. I can delete it via curl or Kibana and it is acknowledged and removed. It is however not freeing up the space.
- I went ahead and also removed the ILM from the index before deleting a few indices, still no luck.
- Although I removed a whole index, also tried POST \_forcemerge to no avail.
How can I recover space now that the indices are deleted?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2021, 5:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manual-delete-of-indices-on-elastic-search-not-freeing-up-space/279686/2 "2021-07-27T05:09:48Z")
Welcome to our community! 😃
If you removed them via curl then they should be removed from the disk.
What is the output from `GET /_cat/nodes?v=true&h=id,ip,v,d`?
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### Author:  [@save4elastic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/save4elastic)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2021, 5:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manual-delete-of-indices-on-elastic-search-not-freeing-up-space/279686/3 "2021-07-27T05:47:37Z")
Thanks for your response!
After hours I found that it was a ZFS issue with snapshots! I got rid of the snapshots and the space was recovered correctly, thanks again for your response.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2021, 5:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manual-delete-of-indices-on-elastic-search-not-freeing-up-space/279686/4 "2021-08-24T05:48:04Z")
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