# Unassigned shards/indexes
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unassigned-shards-indexes/305159
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [May 19, 2022, 9:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unassigned-shards-indexes/305159 "2022-05-19T09:52:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Jan\_Engelbrecht](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jan_Engelbrecht)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2022, 9:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unassigned-shards-indexes/305159/1 "2022-05-19T09:52:03Z")
Hi,
I'm quite new to Elastic, we're running 7.15.1 (Centos 7)on our production servers.
We have 3 nodes currently and the following happened when I added a 4th one.
After the 4th Node joined the cluster replication started and all looked good, but it got stuck on 97.5%, status stayed Yellow, eventually (after about 15min) I checked the logs and didn't see any errors.
I stopped node4 with the hope of just re-adding it would solve this replication stuck on 95%
After I stopped it, cluster health went to red.
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curl [http://10.0.3.16:9200/\_cat/shards?h=index,shard,prirep,state,unassigned.reason|](http://10.0.3.16:9200/_cat/shards?h=index,shard,prirep,state,unassigned.reason%7C) grep UNASSIGNED
`% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 7790 100 7790 0 0 511k 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 543k
.ds-.logs-deprecation.Elasticsearch-default-2022.05.19-000001 0 p UNASSIGNED INDEX\_REOPENED
.ds-.logs-deprecation.Elasticsearch-default-2022.05.19-000001 0 r UNASSIGNED REPLICA\_ADDED
.ds-ilm-history-5-2022.05.19-000001 0 p UNASSIGNED INDEX\_REOPENED
.ds-ilm-history-5-2022.05.19-000001 0 r UNASSIGNED INDEX\_REOPENED
...
This is the shards that is not assigned, I tried closing and opening them and also tried removing and adding a replica (from what I read on the net that some people tried) and nothing works.
how can I go about to resolve this? The 2 indexes seems to be Elastic indexes.
How important are they?
Can I just delete them?
Is there a way to repair them?
Thanks very much
Jan
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2022, 12:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unassigned-shards-indexes/305159/2 "2022-05-19T12:37:31Z")
IMO removing them should not cause any harm.
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### Author:  [@Jan\_Engelbrecht](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jan_Engelbrecht)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2022, 5:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unassigned-shards-indexes/305159/3 "2022-05-20T05:55:17Z")
Hi,
Thanks for the reply, that is what I also thought, but when I try to remove it I get the following:
...
{
"error" : {
"root\_cause" : [
{
"type" : "illegal\_argument\_exception",
"reason" : "index [.ds-.logs-deprecation.Elasticsearch-default-2022.05.19-000001] is the write index for data stream [.logs-deprecation.Elasticsearch-default] and cannot be deleted"
}
],
"type" : "illegal\_argument\_exception",
"reason" : "index [.ds-.logs-deprecation.Elasticsearch-default-2022.05.19-000001] is the write index for data stream [.logs-deprecation.Elasticsearch-default] and cannot be deleted"
},
"status" : 400
}
...
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### Author:  [@Jan\_Engelbrecht](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jan_Engelbrecht)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2022, 6:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unassigned-shards-indexes/305159/4 "2022-05-20T06:55:43Z")
I think i found the solution, for incase anyone else has this issue.
You need to roll\_over too a new index.
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curl -X POST "[http://10.0.3.16:9200/.logs-deprecation.elasticsearch-default/\_rollover/?pretty](http://10.0.3.16:9200/.logs-deprecation.elasticsearch-default/_rollover/?pretty)"
curl -X POST "[http://10.0.3.16:9200/ilm-history-5/\_rollover/?pretty](http://10.0.3.16:9200/ilm-history-5/_rollover/?pretty)"
...
After this you can delete the old ones.
Thanks
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2022, 6:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unassigned-shards-indexes/305159/5 "2022-06-17T06:56:18Z")
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