# How Does One Reset a Node?

**URL:** https://forums.percona.com/t/how-does-one-reset-a-node/4998
**Category:** Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.x
**Created:** [July 25, 2016, 6:31pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-does-one-reset-a-node/4998 "2016-07-25T18:31:28Z")
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#### Post date: [July 25, 2016, 6:31pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-does-one-reset-a-node/4998/1 "2016-07-25T18:31:28Z")

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Throughout my development process, I need to reset nodes to either re-cluster, or use for different purposes. How does one reset the “galera” cluster state? Regardless of what I do, the grastate.dat file is always populated with the last cluster information (seqno, etc).

Is there any command or set of commands one can run to reset a node to forget about its last clustering? “RESET MASTER”, “flush-logs”, etc?

It is as simple as just deleting the file? Are there other files that must be removed/reset/etc?