title: Elasticsearch: evacuate all data before shutdown of a data node?
body: <p>Is there a way to tell a node to remove all of its data (spread it back out among the other nodes) so that I can shut it down and not deal with a rebalance/re-replicate once its down?</p>
  
  <p>If I have 2 copies of each shard, and I drop one node, some of the shards now only have 1 live copy and it has to be re-replicated. I'd prefer to not drop down to 1 live copy for any period of time if I can.</p>