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Moving a disk to a different folder

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Updated at February 12, 2025

When you create a disk, it is placed in the current folder.

In Yandex Cloud, you can move a disk to a different folder within a single cloud.

Learn more about the Yandex Cloud resource hierarchy here.

Limitations

When moving a disk, keep in mind the following limitations:

  • Yandex Monitoring does not support metric relocation: existing metrics remain in the source folder, and new ones will be created in the destination folder.
  • You can only move disks within a single cloud.

Moving a disk

To change the disk folder:

If you do not have the Yandex Cloud CLI yet, install and initialize it.

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

  1. Get a list of all disks in the default folder:

    yc compute disk list

    Result:

    +----------------------+--------------+-------------+---------------+--------+----------------------+-------------------------+
|          ID          |     NAME     |    SIZE     |     ZONE      | STATUS |     INSTANCE IDS     |       DESCRIPTION       |
+----------------------+--------------+-------------+---------------+--------+----------------------+-------------------------+
| a7lqgbt0bb9s******** | first-disk   | 20401094656 | ru-central1-a | READY  | a7lcvu28njbh******** |                         |
| a7lv5j5hm1p1******** | second-disk  | 21474836480 | ru-central1-a | READY  |                      |                         |
+----------------------+--------------+-------------+---------------+--------+----------------------+-------------------------+

  2. Get a list of all folders in the default cloud:

    yc resource-manager folder list

    Result:

    +----------------------+--------------------+------------------+--------+
|          ID          |        NAME        |      LABELS      | STATUS |
+----------------------+--------------------+------------------+--------+
| b1gd129pp9ha******** | my-folder          |                  | ACTIVE |
| b1g66mft1vop******** | default            |                  | ACTIVE |
+----------------------+--------------------+------------------+--------+

  3. See the description of the CLI command for moving a disk:

    yc compute disk move --help

  4. Move the disk to a different folder with the following parameters:

    yc compute disk move \
  --id a7lqgbt0bb9s******** \
  --destination-folder-id b1gd129pp9ha********

    Where:

    • --id: Disk ID, e.g., a7lqgbt0bb9s********.
    • --destination-folder-id: Destination folder ID, e.g., b1gd129pp9ha********.

    For more information about the yc compute disk move command, see the CLI reference.

Use the move REST API method for the Disk resource or the DiskService/Move gRPC API call.

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