Deleting a disk

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Updated at October 17, 2024

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

Terraform

API

In the management console, select the folder the disk belongs to.
Select Compute Cloud.
In the left-hand panel, select Disks.
In the line of the appropriate disk, click and select Delete.
In the window that opens, click Delete.

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     | PLACEMENT GROUP | DESCRIPTION |
+----------------------+--------------+-------------+-------------------+--------+----------------------+-----------------+-------------+
| a7lqgbt0bb9s******** | first-disk   | 20401094656 |   ru-central1-a   | READY  | a7lcvu28njbh******** |                 |             |
| a7lv5j5hm1p1******** | second-disk  | 21474836480 |   ru-central1-a   | READY  |                      |                 |             |
+----------------------+--------------+-------------+-------------------+--------+----------------------+-----------------+-------------+

Select the disk you intend to use by ID or NAME.

Delete the disk:

yc compute disk delete \
  --name first-disk

If you don't have Terraform, install it and configure the Yandex Cloud provider.

You can delete disks created with Terraform:

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

Terraform deletes all the resources that you created in the current configuration, such as clusters, networks, subnets, and instances.
Type yes and press Enter.

To delete a disk, use the delete REST API method for the Disk resource or the DiskService/Delete gRPC API call.

To request the list of available disks, use the list REST API method or the DiskService/List gRPC API call.

Deleting a disk

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