To avoid this situation in the future, besides using a service to start elasticsearch, you can enforce the max nodes setting:
node.max_local_storage_nodes: 1 -- Ivan On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Mark Walkom <markwal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yellow means unassigned replicas, try removing them and then adding them > back. > > Once your cluster is green you can stop one of the nodes with the extra > data and then delete the extra directory, just make sure you let the other > nodes rebalance and your cluster is green again before deleting, otherwise > you may risk losing data. > > On 8 November 2014 19:12, Johan Öhr <johan....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, while trying to set up an another process as master, i believe i for >> some time ran multiple instances of elasticsearch on three nodes. >> >> On these nodes, its looks like this: >> /var/lib/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/indices/0 >> /var/lib/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/indices/1 >> >> On my other nodes, that are fine it looks like: >> /var/lib/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/indices/0 >> >> So, there is alot of data in the "1"-directory on three nodes, and these >> shards will not be ASSIGNED, my cluster stays yellow. >> >> This mistake happend 1 week ago, since then i have restarted ES a couple >> of times, but it was just now that i got the problem. >> >> How can i fix this? >> >> At the moment im running 5 nodes, where 3 runs another instance of >> elasticsearch, as just masters >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "elasticsearch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to elasticsearch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/3c852fff-611a-45fb-b1c2-e5962d733977%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/3c852fff-611a-45fb-b1c2-e5962d733977%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to elasticsearch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAF3ZnZnUn1hHAy60TTiOxo8b5rdt0N35dDYjq7Abb3M8pNNEjg%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAF3ZnZnUn1hHAy60TTiOxo8b5rdt0N35dDYjq7Abb3M8pNNEjg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elasticsearch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CALY%3DcQBUueXaZ64g5%2B%2B3R69iFxJWo3oHQXq3cuhKt4CfYB33Dg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
