gce_delete_disk: Deletes the specified persistent disk.

In cloudyr/googleComputeEngineR: R Interface with Google Compute Engine

Deletes the specified persistent disk.

Description

Deleting a disk removes its data permanently and is irreversible.

Usage

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

Google Documentation

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