# Store.size vs disk.indices - disk usage

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/store-size-vs-disk-indices-disk-usage/57390
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 6, 2016, 1:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/store-size-vs-disk-indices-disk-usage/57390 "2016-08-06T01:02:59Z")
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### Author: ![kmurthy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a8b319/32.png) [@kmurthy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kmurthy)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2016, 1:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/store-size-vs-disk-indices-disk-usage/57390/1 "2016-08-06T01:02:59Z")

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Hi,

I have a 3 node elastic cluster.  
The output of 'localhost:9200/\_cat/indices?v' shows up the store.size for indices a & b  
the sum of store.size of a & b is much higher than the disk.indices from the command  
curl -XGET localhost:9200/\_cat/allocation?v.

So which one of these ( disk.indices or sum of store.size) is the actual disk usage of all the indices per node ?

Thank you in advance. Greatly appreciate any help.

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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: [July 5, 2017, 10:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/store-size-vs-disk-indices-disk-usage/57390/2 "2017-07-05T22:29:41Z")

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