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  • Creating a file storage
  • Mounting a file storage to a project
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  • Deleting a file storage
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Using file storages

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Updated at June 26, 2025
  • Creating a file storage
  • Mounting a file storage to a project
  • Using a file storage in a project
  • Unmounting a file storage
  • Updating a file storage
  • Sharing a file storage
  • Deleting a file storage

With DataSphere file storages, you can store large amounts of information and access it from your notebooks.

Creating a file storageCreating a file storage

  1. Select the relevant project in your community or on the DataSphere homepage in the Recent projects tab.

  2. Under Project resources, click Filestore.

  3. Click Create filestore.

  4. In the window that opens, enter a name for the file storage in the Name field.

    • The name must be from 3 to 63 characters long.
    • It may contain uppercase and lowercase Latin and Cyrillic letters, numbers, hyphens, underscores, and spaces.
    • The first character must be a letter. The last character cannot be a hyphen, underscore, or space.
  5. In the Mount path field, enter the name you are going to use to connect to the file storage. The connection name may contain only Latin letters and digits and must begin with a slash, e.g., /filestore.

  6. Under Storage volume, GB, set the storage size you need. At the bottom of the window, you will see the total cost of storage per month.

  7. Click Create. You will now see a page with information on the file storage you just created.

Mounting a file storage to a projectMounting a file storage to a project

Go to the file storage page and click Activate. Once activated, the file storage will be available in the /filestore/ folder of the JupyterLab file browser, and you will be able to view it as a file system.

Using a file storage in a projectUsing a file storage in a project

You can access files in the storage from your project code. Right-click the file you need and select Copy path. This will copy the file path to the clipboard. Paste the copied path wherever you need in the project.

Unmounting a file storageUnmounting a file storage

  1. Select the relevant project in your community or on the DataSphere homepage in the Recent projects tab.

  2. Under Project resources, click Filestore.
  3. In the row with the file storage, click and select Deactivate.

Updating a file storageUpdating a file storage

  1. Select the relevant project in your community or on the DataSphere homepage in the Recent projects tab.

  2. Under Project resources, click Filestore.
  3. In the file storage row, click and select Edit.
  4. Update the file storage: edit its name and connection name and add a description.
  5. Click Save.

Sharing a file storageSharing a file storage

Note

You can only share resources within a single organization between communities created in the same availability zone.

To share a file storage within a community, you need the Editor role for the project and the Developer role for the community. To learn more about roles in DataSphere, see Access management in DataSphere.

  1. Select the relevant project in your community or on the DataSphere homepage in the Recent projects tab.

  2. Under Project resources, click Filestore.
  3. Select the file storage from the list.
  4. Navigate to the Access tab.
  5. Enable the visibility option next to the name of the community you want to share the file storage in.

To make the file storage available in a different project, the project admin has to add it on the Shared tab.

Warning

To avoid losing your data, try not to write it to the same file from multiple projects at once.

Deleting a file storageDeleting a file storage

  1. Select the relevant project in your community or on the DataSphere homepage in the Recent projects tab.

  2. Under Project resources, click Filestore.
  3. In the file storage row, click and select Delete.
  4. Click Confirm.

You will see a message stating that the file storage was deleted.

Warning

The actual deletion of resources can take up to 72 hours.

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