Hi! I have a single node with zero configuration (the default). It takes about 20GB of disk space and had 45M documents. I removed approximately half of the documents, but no disk space was freed. I also ran the "optimize" command by hand, but still no free space. So, when is the disk space goi…

When does ES free up disk space?

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When does ES free up disk space?