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Update count.asciidoc

Added a note clarifying that deleted documents are not returned by `_cat/count`

Closes https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/16008
Clinton Gormley 9 years ago
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@@ -9,8 +9,12 @@ cluster, or individual indices.
 % curl 192.168.56.10:9200/_cat/indices
 green wiki1 3 0 10000 331 168.5mb 168.5mb
 green wiki2 3 0   428   0     8mb     8mb
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 % curl 192.168.56.10:9200/_cat/count
 1384314124582 19:42:04 10428
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 % curl 192.168.56.10:9200/_cat/count/wiki2
 1384314139815 19:42:19 428
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+NOTE: The document count indicates the number of live documents and does not include deleted documents which have not yet been cleaned up by the merge process.