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Moving a disk to a different folder

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Updated at June 9, 2025
  • Limitations
  • Moving a disk

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.

LimitationsLimitations

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 diskMoving a disk

To change the disk folder:

CLI
API

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.

  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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