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DigitalOcean-public.v2-new_Block Storage

Retrieve an Existing Block Storage Volume

To show information about a block storage volume, send a GET request to /v2/volumes/$VOLUME_ID.

get/v2/volumes/{volume_id}

Path parameters

volume_idstring uuid required

The ID of the block storage volume.

Response

The response will be a JSON object with a key called volume. The value will be an object containing the standard attributes associated with a volume.

Example response

{
  "volume": {
    "id": "506f78a4-e098-11e5-ad9f-000f53306ae1",
    "region": {
      "name": "New York 1",
      "slug": "nyc1",
      "sizes": [
        "s-1vcpu-1gb",
        "s-1vcpu-2gb",
        "s-1vcpu-3gb",
        "s-2vcpu-2gb",
        "s-3vcpu-1gb",
        "s-2vcpu-4gb",
        "s-4vcpu-8gb",
        "s-6vcpu-16gb",
        "s-8vcpu-32gb",
        "s-12vcpu-48gb",
        "s-16vcpu-64gb",
        "s-20vcpu-96gb",
        "s-24vcpu-128gb",
        "s-32vcpu-192gb"
      ],
      "features": [
        "private_networking",
        "backups",
        "ipv6",
        "metadata"
      ],
      "available": true
    },
    "droplet_ids": [],
    "name": "example",
    "description": "Block store for examples",
    "size_gigabytes": 10,
    "filesystem_type": "ext4",
    "filesystem_label": "example",
    "created_at": "2020-03-02T17:00:49Z"
  }
}