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				|  |  |  [[ilm-shrink-size-ex]]
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				|  |  | -===== Calculate the number of shards of the new shrunken index based on the storage of the
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				|  |  | -source index and the `max_primary_shard_size` parameter
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				|  |  | +===== Calculate the optimal number of primary shards for a shrunken index
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				|  |  | +The following policy uses the `max_primary_shard_size` parameter to
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				|  |  | +automatically calculate the new shrunken index's primary shard count based on
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				|  |  | +the source index's storage size.
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