Updating a file storage

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Updated at May 13, 2025

After creating a file storage, you can change its name, description, and size.

Note

To resize a file storage, you can only use the CLI or API. You can only increase the storage size. Reducing it is not supported.

Management console

CLI

Terraform

API

In the management console, select the folder where your file storage resides.
Select Compute Cloud.
In the left-hand panel, select File storages.
In the line with the file storage, click and select Edit.
Update the file storage parameters, e.g., rename the storage by editing the Name field.

Note

To resize a file storage, you can only use the CLI or API.
Click Save.

If you do not have the Yandex Cloud (CLI) command line interface yet, install and initialize it.

The folder specified when creating the CLI profile is used by default. To change the default folder, use the yc config set folder-id <folder_ID> command. You can specify a different folder using the --folder-name or --folder-id parameter.

See the description of the CLI command for updating a file storage:
- To change the name, description, or size:
```
yc compute filesystem update --help
```
- To resize:
```
yc compute filesystem resize --help
```

Get a list of available file storages:

yc compute filesystem list --format yaml

Result:

- id: epd0u6h8lh41********
  folder_id: b1g86q4m5vej********
  created_at: "2022-04-26T16:59:19Z"
...
  size: "1073741824"
  block_size: "4096"
  status: READY

Update the storage parameters by specifying the storage --id or --name value in your command. For example, update the following:

Name and description:

yc compute filesystem update \
  --name storage-1 \
  --new-name storage-3 \
  --description vm-storage

Result:

id: epd5g123c8hk********
folder_id: b1g86q4m5vej********
created_at: "2022-04-26T16:37:30Z"
...
size: "1073741824"
block_size: "4096"
status: READY

Size:

yc compute filesystem resize \
  --name storage-1 \
  --size 2GB

Result:

id: epd5g123c8hk********
folder_id: b1g86q4m5vej********
created_at: "2022-04-26T16:37:30Z"
...
size: "2147483648"
block_size: "4096"
status: READY

If you do not have Terraform yet, install it and configure its Yandex Cloud provider.

Open the Terraform configuration file and edit the section specifying the file storage:
Example of specifying a file storage in Terraform configuration
```
...
resource "yandex_compute_filesystem" "default" {
  name  = "fs-name"
  type  = "network-ssd"
  zone  = "ru-central1-a"
  size  = 150
}
...
```
Apply the changes:
1. In the terminal, change to the folder where you edited the configuration file.
2. Make sure the configuration file is correct using the command:
```
terraform validate
```
  If the configuration is correct, the following message is returned:
```
Success! The configuration is valid.
```
3. Run the command:
```
terraform plan
```
  The terminal will display a list of resources with parameters. No changes are made at this step. If the configuration contains errors, Terraform will point them out.
4. Apply the configuration changes:
```
terraform apply
```
5. Confirm the changes: type yes in the terminal and press Enter.

You can check the file storage updates and settings using the management console or this CLI command:

yc compute filesystem get <file_storage_name>

Use the update REST API method for the Filesystem resource or the FilesystemService/Update gRPC API call.

Updating a file storage

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