# Sometimes disk.Indices greater than disk.used

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sometimes-disk-indices-greater-than-disk-used/118958
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 8, 2018, 2:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sometimes-disk-indices-greater-than-disk-used/118958 "2018-02-08T02:28:40Z")
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### Author: ![James\_Yin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/james_yin/32/17428_2.png) [@James\_Yin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/James_Yin)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2018, 2:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sometimes-disk-indices-greater-than-disk-used/118958/1 "2018-02-08T02:28:40Z")

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I used Elasticsearch 5.2.2. When I use /\_cat/allocation to get the disk store information, sometimes I find there are disk.Indices greater than disk.used. what it's means?  
"disk.total": "1268138754048",  
"disk.percent": "54",  
"disk.used": "692347600896",  
"disk.indices": "895363422936",

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### Author: ![val](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/val/32/138203_2.png) [@val](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/val)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2018, 3:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sometimes-disk-indices-greater-than-disk-used/118958/2 "2018-02-08T03:42:33Z")

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Can you also gist the output you get from `GET /_nodes/stats`?

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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 8, 2018, 3:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sometimes-disk-indices-greater-than-disk-used/118958/3 "2018-03-08T03:42:47Z")

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