Create a volume

Creates a Block Storage volume on your account. Creating a new volume accrues additional charges on your account.

Permissions and scopes

To call this operation, you need permissions, based on the model you're using:

  • Identity and access permissions. Your user needs a role with these permissions. Learn more.

    • Permissions: create_volume
  • OAuth scopes. Your user needs these scopes assigned. Learn more.

    • Scopes: volumes:read_write

CLI

linode-cli volumes create \
  --label my-volume \
  --size 20 \
  --linode_id 12346 \
  --no-defaults

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