Deleting a disk

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Warning

You can only delete a disk that is not attached to a virtual machine. For instructions on detaching a disk, see Detaching a disk from a VM. Deleting a disk is an operation that cannot be canceled or reversed. You cannot restore a deleted disk.

If you delete a disk, its snapshots are not deleted with it. Snapshots need to be deleted separately.

To delete a disk:

Management console

CLI

API

Terraform

In the management console, select the folder the disk belongs to.
Select Compute Cloud.
On the left-hand panel, select Disks.
In the row with the desired disk, click and select the Delete command from the menu.
Confirm the deletion.

The folder specified in the CLI profile is used by default. You can specify a different folder using the --folder-name or --folder-id parameter.

See the description of the CLI's delete disk commands:
```
yc compute disk delete --help
```

Get a list of disks in the default folder:

yc compute disk list

Result:

+----------------------+--------------+-------------+---------------+--------+----------------------+-------------------------+
|          ID          |     NAME     |    SIZE     |     ZONE      | STATUS |     INSTANCE IDS     |       DESCRIPTION       |
+----------------------+--------------+-------------+---------------+--------+----------------------+-------------------------+
| a7lqgbt0bb9s40tifuhc | first-disk   | 20401094656 | ru-central1-a | READY  | a7lcvu28njbhnkcteb5n |                         |
| a7lv5j5hm1p1hppprga7 | second-disk  | 21474836480 | ru-central1-a | READY  |                      |                         |
+----------------------+--------------+-------------+---------------+--------+----------------------+-------------------------+

Select the identifier (ID) or the name (NAME) of the desired image.

Delete the disk:

yc compute disk delete \
    --name first-disk

You can delete a disk using the API delete method.

To request the list of available disks, use the list.

For more information about Terraform, see the documentation.

You can delete disks created with Terraform:

In the command line, go to the directory with the Terraform configuration file.
Delete resources using the command:
```
terraform destroy
```
Alert

Terraform deletes all the resources that you created in the current configuration, such as clusters, networks, subnets, and VMs.
Confirm the deletion of resources.

Deleting a disk

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