# Non-existent shards on drive - delete?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/non-existent-shards-on-drive-delete/60558>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 15, 2016, 12:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/non-existent-shards-on-drive-delete/60558 "2016-09-15T00:30:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![klahnakoski](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/klahnakoski/32/3679_2.png) [@klahnakoski](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/klahnakoski)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 12:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/non-existent-shards-on-drive-delete/60558/1 "2016-09-15T00:30:04Z")

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I have manually commanded Elasticsearch to move a shard to a new node. It went well, and the shard shows on the new node. Unfortunately, original node's hard drive still has a directory for that shard. I am running out of space! Can I delete the directory for the shards that Elasticsearch does not think are on that node? I am using 1.7.1.

Thanks!

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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:** [July 5, 2017, 10:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/non-existent-shards-on-drive-delete/60558/2 "2017-07-05T22:20:07Z")

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