# 'reindexed-v7-yellow' shards?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reindexed-v7-yellow-shards/273661>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 21, 2021, 11:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reindexed-v7-yellow-shards/273661 "2021-05-21T11:58:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![ethrbunny](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ethrbunny/32/34603_2.png) [@ethrbunny](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ethrbunny)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2021, 11:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reindexed-v7-yellow-shards/273661/1 "2021-05-21T11:58:23Z")

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After some recent server updates these showed up as 'unassigned shards'. What are they and can I delete them? They're on every node in the cluster.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2021, 12:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reindexed-v7-yellow-shards/273661/2 "2021-05-25T00:04:43Z")

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I haven't seen these before. Can you provide the output from `_cat/indices?v`?

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**Author:** ![ethrbunny](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ethrbunny/32/34603_2.png) [@ethrbunny](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ethrbunny)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2021, 12:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reindexed-v7-yellow-shards/273661/3 "2021-05-25T12:23:49Z")

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```
yellow open reindexed-v7-yellow ILOmkDvpSpGYgwouyCXsig 5 2 0 0 3.8kb 1.3kb

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There are 650+ indexes in this cluster so I only pasted the odd duck.

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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 22, 2021, 12:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reindexed-v7-yellow-shards/273661/4 "2021-06-22T12:24:07Z")

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