title: How to delete unassigned shards in elasticsearch?
body: <p>I have only one node on one computer and the index have 5 shards without replicas. Here are some parameters describe my elasticsearch node(healthy indexes are ignored in the following list):</p>
  
  <pre><code>GET /_cat/indices?v
  health status index   pri rep docs.count docs.deleted store.size pri.store.size 
  red    open   datas     5   0  344999414            0     43.9gb         43.9gb 
  
  GET _cat/shards                                    
  datas   4 p STARTED    114991132 14.6gb 127.0.0.1 Eric the Red 
  datas   3 p STARTED    114995287 14.6gb 127.0.0.1 Eric the Red 
  datas   2 p STARTED    115012995 14.6gb 127.0.0.1 Eric the Red 
  datas   1 p UNASSIGNED                                         
  datas   0 p UNASSIGNED                  
  
  shards disk.indices disk.used disk.avail disk.total disk.percent host      ip        node         
  14       65.9gb     710gb    202.8gb    912.8gb           77 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 Eric the Red 
   3                                                                               UNASSIGNED   
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