# Mapping file and the disk space
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-file-and-the-disk-space/185041
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 10, 2019, 6:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-file-and-the-disk-space/185041 "2019-06-10T18:00:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@ivar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ivar)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2019, 6:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-file-and-the-disk-space/185041/1 "2019-06-10T18:00:31Z")
I have an index which has around 10 fields that are marked as
"type": "text",
"fields": {
"keyword": {
"type": "keyword",
"ignore\_above": 256
}
}
now I created another index with same mappings except that I marked all the text fields as just keyword
{
"type": "keyword"
}
now reindexed all the documents(500000 docs) from source to destination
and when I check the size of the index, I dont see any difference between new index and original index
I expected the new index should have less size as I removed 8 text fields ?
can someone explain this behaviour ?
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### Author:  [@martinr\_ubi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/martinr_ubi)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2019, 6:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-file-and-the-disk-space/185041/2 "2019-06-10T18:40:51Z")
Hi,
You also removed the ignore\_above: 256.
Meaning its now using the default of 2147483647.
What happens if you set the ignore\_above : 256 in your new index mapping and rerun this experiment?
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### Author:  [@ivar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ivar)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2019, 2:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-file-and-the-disk-space/185041/3 "2019-06-16T02:39:52Z")
> [@martinr\_ubi](#):
>
> ur new index mapping and rerun this experiment?
Hi Martin
I'm sure that all my Id fields will be \< 256 characters
and text will not be split by standard analyzer I'm using
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2019, 2:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-file-and-the-disk-space/185041/4 "2019-07-14T02:40:03Z")
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