# What is the impact of physical delete of replica shard on elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-impact-of-physical-delete-of-replica-shard-on-elasticsearch/89239>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 13, 2017, 4:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-impact-of-physical-delete-of-replica-shard-on-elasticsearch/89239 "2017-06-13T16:23:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kumar\_Narottam](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kumar_narottam/32/18959_2.png) [@Kumar\_Narottam](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kumar_Narottam)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 4:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-impact-of-physical-delete-of-replica-shard-on-elasticsearch/89239/1 "2017-06-13T16:23:17Z")

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What is the impact of physical delete of replica shard on elastic search ?

I have restarted one node from my 5 node cluster and i see that one of the shard has not been deleted.  
And this keeps on reallocating to and fro between two nodes.

1. Is there a way that can i delete a reallocating replica shard from elastic or physically from the box.
2. Will primary shard will create the replica again if I delete the replicas physically or by any other means ?

I hate this time. Can some one help me out.

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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 11, 2017, 4:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-impact-of-physical-delete-of-replica-shard-on-elasticsearch/89239/2 "2017-07-11T16:23:23Z")

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