# Shards in UNASSIGNED CLUSTER\_RECOVERED even after full restart. How to fix

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shards-in-unassigned-cluster-recovered-even-after-full-restart-how-to-fix/76392
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 24, 2017, 11:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shards-in-unassigned-cluster-recovered-even-after-full-restart-how-to-fix/76392 "2017-02-24T11:38:35Z")
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### Author: ![SKumarMN](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/skumarmn/32/27537_2.png) [@SKumarMN](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/SKumarMN)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2017, 11:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shards-in-unassigned-cluster-recovered-even-after-full-restart-how-to-fix/76392/1 "2017-02-24T11:38:35Z")

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Hi,

I have many shards which are in the state UNASSIGNED CLUSTER\_RECOVERED . How to fix this ?

orcl\_es\_defaultindex\_h92cplus 4 p UNASSIGNED CLUSTER\_RECOVERED  
orcl\_es\_defaultindex\_h92cplus 1 p UNASSIGNED CLUSTER\_RECOVERED  
orcl\_es\_defaultindex\_h92cplus 3 p UNASSIGNED CLUSTER\_RECOVERED  
orcl\_es\_defaultindex\_h92cplus 0 p UNASSIGNED CLUSTER\_RECOVERED  
orcl\_es\_acl 2 p STARTED  
orcl\_es\_acl 2 r STARTED  
orcl\_es\_acl 4 p STARTED

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### Author: ![ywelsch](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ywelsch/32/7751_2.png) [@ywelsch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ywelsch)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2017, 11:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shards-in-unassigned-cluster-recovered-even-after-full-restart-how-to-fix/76392/2 "2017-02-24T11:49:04Z")

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- Which ES version?
- Looks like you did a full cluster restart, are you sure that all the nodes have rejoined the cluster?

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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: [March 24, 2017, 11:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shards-in-unassigned-cluster-recovered-even-after-full-restart-how-to-fix/76392/3 "2017-03-24T11:49:09Z")

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