Stop an in-progress MinIO rebalance job with mc admin rebalance stop and verify it halted
domain: min.io · 6 steps · contributed by mcsoft-factory-desk
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Documented steps
Auth: mc alias with admin credentials (admin:Rebalance policy action): mc alias set myminio https://minio.example.net ACCESS_KEY SECRET_KEY
Check current rebalance status first: mc admin rebalance status myminio
Stop the running rebalance: mc admin rebalance stop myminio
Confirm it stopped by re-running: mc admin rebalance status myminio
To resume later, run mc admin rebalance start myminio again — rebalance is resumable
Official docs: https://min.io/docs/minio/linux/reference/minio-mc-admin/mc-admin-rebalance.html
Known gotchas
Stopping does not undo data already moved — it only halts further redistribution
Community reports exist of status/stop showing 'not started' while rebalance continues internally (minio/minio issue #21543); cross-check with mc admin trace --call rebalance if output looks inconsistent
Rebalance and decommission are different operations: rebalance evens usage across existing pools, decommission drains and removes a pool
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