How to Delete Volumes

To delete a volume via the command-line, follow these steps:

1. Install doctl, the DigitalOcean command-line tool.

2. Create a personal access token, and save it for use with doctl.

3. Use the token to grant doctl access to your DigitalOcean account.

                 doctl auth init
               

4. Finally, delete a volume with doctl compute volume delete. The basic usage looks like this, but you'll want to read the usage docs for more details:

                 doctl compute volume delete <volume-id> [flags]
               

   The following example deletes a volume with the UUID f81d4fae-7dec-11d0-a765-00a0c91e6bf6

                  doctl compute volume delete f81d4fae-7dec-11d0-a765-00a0c91e6bf6
               

To delete a volume using the DigitalOcean API, follow these steps:

1. Create a personal access token, and save it for use with the API.

2. Send a DELETE request to https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/volumes/{volume_id}

   cURL

   To delete a volume with cURL, call:

   
                   curl -X DELETE \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer $DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN" \
     "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/volumes/7724db7c-e098-11e5-b522-000f53304e51"

   Go

   Go developers can use Godo, the official DigitalOcean V2 API client for Go. To delete a volume with Godo, use the following code:

   
                   import (
       "context"
       "os"
   
       "github.com/digitalocean/godo"
   )
   
   func main() {
       token := os.Getenv("DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN")
   
       client := godo.NewFromToken(token)
       ctx := context.TODO()
   
       _, err := client.Storage.DeleteVolume(ctx, "7724db7c-e098-11e5-b522-000f53304e51")
   }

   Ruby

   Ruby developers can use DropletKit, the official DigitalOcean V2 API client for Ruby. To delete a volume with DropletKit, use the following code:

   
                   require 'droplet_kit'
   token = ENV['DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN']
   client = DropletKit::Client.new(access_token: token)
   
   client.volumes.delete(id: '7724db7c-e098-11e5-b522-000f53304e51')

   Python

   
                   import os
   from pydo import Client
   
   client = Client(token=os.environ.get("DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN"))
   
   resp = client.volumes.delete(volume_id="7724db7c")