# Shards

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shards/19450>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 25, 2014, 9:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shards/19450 "2014-08-25T21:55:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![wiesi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bcef8e/32.png) [@wiesi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wiesi)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 9:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shards/19450/1 "2014-08-25T21:55:28Z")

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Hi folks,

I am using a single Node-Cluster (v1.3.2) on my PC, and I was wondering that  
there are always 5 shards in the file-system (separate Lucene-indices), no  
matter how many I configure in in elasticsearch.yml or programmatically with  
Java-API (loadFromSource with JSON-String). Do I missunderstand something?

Many thanks!

Markus 😉

BTW: Here´s my JSON for the settings:

{  
"analysis":{ ... },  
"settings":{  
"index":{  
"number\_of\_replicas":1,  
"number\_of\_shards":3  
}  
}  
}

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**Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 11:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shards/19450/2 "2014-08-26T11:12:22Z")

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Hi,

I´ve found the problem, the JSON-structure was not correct, it has to be  
this if you are using the JAVA-API:

{  
"analysis":{ ... },

"index":{  
"number\_of\_replicas":1,  
"number\_of\_shards":3

}  
}

Thanks

Markus 😉

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Im Auftrag von Markus Wiesenbacher  
Gesendet: Montag, 25. August 2014 23:55  
An: [elasticsearch@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch@googlegroups.com)  
Betreff: Shards

Hi folks,

I am using a single Node-Cluster (v1.3.2) on my PC, and I was wondering that  
there are always 5 shards in the file-system (separate Lucene-indices), no  
matter how many I configure in in elasticsearch.yml or programmatically with  
Java-API (loadFromSource with JSON-String). Do I missunderstand something?

Many thanks!

Markus 😉

BTW: Here´s my JSON for the settings:

{  
"analysis":{ ... },  
"settings":{  
"index":{  
"number\_of\_replicas":1,  
"number\_of\_shards":3  
}  
}  
}

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**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shards/19450/3 "2017-07-06T01:06:32Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 1:06am UTC