Deleting a disk removes its data permanently and is irreversible.

gce_delete_disk(disk, project = gce_get_global_project(),
  zone = gce_get_global_zone())

Arguments

disk

Name of the persistent disk to delete

project

Project ID for this request

zone

The name of the zone for this request

Details

However, deleting a disk does not delete any snapshots previously made from the disk. You must separately delete snapshots.

Authentication scopes used by this function are:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute

See also