# Shards both primary and replica shards **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [August 11, 2016, 7:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shards-both-primary-and-replica-shards/57848 "2016-08-11T19:11:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![anks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f07891/32.png) [@anks](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anks)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 7:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shards-both-primary-and-replica-shards/57848/1 "2016-08-11T19:11:25Z")
Hi I am having 6 data nodes and 100 of indices. All indices having 1 replica. Recently, one of my data node have disk failure hence ES crashed on it. It is strange to see that few indices lost all of both primary and replica shards. How it is possible, Any clue? Thanks, Ankita ---
**Author:** ![1222kkk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/1222kkk/32/23635_2.png) [@1222kkk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/1222kkk)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2016, 1:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shards-both-primary-and-replica-shards/57848/2 "2016-08-12T01:26:04Z")
You can check whether your data of these indices still exist in you "data\_path" ---
**Author:** ![anks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f07891/32.png) [@anks](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anks)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2016, 7:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shards-both-primary-and-replica-shards/57848/3 "2016-08-12T07:00:36Z")
No, shards didn't exists on remaining node data\_path. ---
**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, 10:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shards-both-primary-and-replica-shards/57848/4 "2017-07-05T22:28:09Z")