Detaching a disk from a VM
You can detach a disk from either a running or a stopped VM.
Note
You cannot detach a boot disk from a VM. You cannot detach a local disk from a VM running on a dedicated host.
To successfully detach a disk from a running VM, the operating system must be ready to handle detach disk commands. Before detaching a disk, make sure the OS is booted up or stop the VM; otherwise the operation will fail. If an error occurs, stop the VM and try again.
To detach a disk from a VM:
- In the management console
, select the folder this VM belongs to. - Select Compute Cloud.
- In the left-hand panel, select
Disks. - Next to the disk in question, click
and select Detach. - Click Detach.
If you do not have the Yandex Cloud CLI installed yet, install and initialize it.
By default, the CLI uses the folder specified when creating the profile. To change the default folder, use the yc config set folder-id <folder_ID>
command. You can also set a different folder for any specific command using the --folder-name
or --folder-id
parameter.
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See the description of the CLI command for detaching disks:
yc compute instance detach-disk --help
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Get a list of VMs in the default folder:
yc compute instance list
Result:
+----------------------+-----------------+---------------+---------+----------------------+ | ID | NAME | ZONE ID | STATUS | DESCRIPTION | +----------------------+-----------------+---------------+---------+----------------------+ | fhm0b28lgfp4******** | first-instance | ru-central1-a | RUNNING | my first vm via CLI | | fhm9gk85nj7g******** | second-instance | ru-central1-a | RUNNING | my second vm via CLI | +----------------------+-----------------+---------------+---------+----------------------+
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Select the
ID
orNAME
of the VM, e.g.,first-instance
. -
Get a list of disks attached to the VM:
yc compute instance get --full first-instance
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Select
disk_id
of the disk, e.g.,fhm4aq4hvq5g********
. -
Detach the disk:
yc compute instance detach-disk first-instance \ --disk-id fhm4aq4hvq5g********
If an error occurs, stop the VM:
yc compute instance stop first-instance
Then, try to detach the disk once again.
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If the VM was stopped, restart it:
yc compute instance start first-instance
With Terraform
Terraform is distributed under the Business Source License
For more information about the provider resources, see the documentation on the Terraform
If you do not have Terraform yet, install it and configure its Yandex Cloud provider.
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In the configuration file, delete the
secondary_disk
section and add theallow_stopping_for_update
parameter to theyandex_compute_instance
resource description:resource "yandex_compute_instance" "vm-1" { ... allow_stopping_for_update = true ... }
Where
allow_stopping_for_update
is the parameter to allow your VM to stop for updates. -
Apply the new configuration:
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In the terminal, go to the directory where you edited the configuration file.
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Make sure the configuration file is correct using this command:
terraform validate
If the configuration is correct, you will get this message:
Success! The configuration is valid.
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Run this command:
terraform plan
You will see a detailed list of resources. No changes will be made at this step. Terraform will show any errors found in your configuration.
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Apply the changes:
terraform apply
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Type
yes
and press Enter to confirm the changes.
Terraform will update all the required resources. You can check the update using the management console
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Use the detachDisk REST API method for the Instance resource or the InstanceService/DetachDisk gRPC API call.