Resizing Partitions
You can increase or decrease the number of forests in a partition. Once the resize operation has completed, the documents in the partition forests will be rebalanced for even distribution.
For example, to resize the 2011 range partition up to five forests, use this code:
$ cat resize-partition.xml <resize xmlns="http://marklogic.com/manage"> <forests-per-host>5</forests-per-host> <hosts> <host>MyHost</host> </hosts> </resize>
$ curl --anyauth --user user:password -X PUT \ -d @resize-partition.xml -H 'Content-type: application/xml' \ http://MyHost:8002/manage/v2/databases/Documents/partitions/2011
In addition to resizing your partition, you can migrate your partition to another host by specifying a different host in the payload. Additionally, you can move the partition to a different storage tier (such as local-to-shared) by specifying one of the migration options described in Migrating Forests and Partitions.
Note
If you resize partitions for databases configured for database replication, first resize the replica partitions before resizing the master partitions.