# Some confusion about Rebalancing
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/some-confusion-about-rebalancing/194535
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 9, 2019, 3:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/some-confusion-about-rebalancing/194535 "2019-08-09T03:27:34Z")
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### Author:  [@KellyK313](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/KellyK313)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2019, 3:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/some-confusion-about-rebalancing/194535/1 "2019-08-09T03:27:34Z")
I have read the [shard-rebalancing-vs-shard-allocation](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shard-rebalancing-vs-shard-allocation/154492) and confused about "Rebalancing is about taking assigned shard copies ".Is es-rebalance not related to primary shard？ @DavidTurner
look forward to receiving your reply
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2019, 3:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/some-confusion-about-rebalancing/194535/2 "2019-09-06T03:27:41Z")
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