Shard balance is by default is confusing, can someone pls explain?

Short answer, I don't think you can do that, no matter how you change the settings, the number and size of shards will always be take into account.

It is also not expect to have a cluster balanced by disk usage, but by shard usage.

What you can do to have a more equal distribution is to try to keep the shards on a similar size and have nodes with the same hardware configuration.

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