# Re-balancing shard allocation

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/re-balancing-shard-allocation/132726>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 22, 2018, 6:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/re-balancing-shard-allocation/132726 "2018-05-22T06:26:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![DavidTurner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/davidturner/32/22453_2.png) [@DavidTurner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DavidTurner)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2018, 2:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/re-balancing-shard-allocation/132726/22 "2018-05-23T14:26:01Z")

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> [@hamid\_bayat](#):
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> we don't delete any index

This _is_ strange then. There must be quite a difference between the numbers of shards on each node. Please could you provide the output of `GET _cat/shards?v` for us to see the details?

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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:** [June 20, 2018, 2:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/re-balancing-shard-allocation/132726/23 "2018-06-20T14:26:19Z")

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