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Updated May 8, 2026 Deleting a volume permanently destroys its data and stops the volume’s subscription billing. On a subscription, the unused days and hours of the current term are credited back to your account balance.
Deleting a VM can also delete its attached volumes in one step. The Destroy VM flow’s final-confirmation dialog lets you pick Detach (keep) or Delete for every attached volume. If you’re tearing down a VM that owns its volume, pick Delete there and you don’t need to come back to this page.

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Before you delete

Deletion is permanent. Every byte on the volume is destroyed. If you might want the data later, take a snapshot of the volume first — snapshots survive volume delete.
Checks before clicking Delete:
  • Is the volume attached? Detach it first (or the dashboard will block delete with a warning).
  • Is the data important? Take a snapshot first — snapshots persist independently of the volume they came from.
  • Is there an /etc/fstab entry on a VM still pointing at this volume? Remove it after delete to avoid boot warnings.

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1. Open the Delete action

In the Volumes list, open the volume’s row ⋮ Actions menu and pick Delete.
Volume row Actions menu showing Delete in red at the bottom (unattached state)
The Delete action sits at the bottom of the menu in red, in both attached and unattached actions menus. If the volume is currently attached, detach it first — see Detach from a VM.

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2. Confirm

A confirmation dialog opens with the destructive-action warning and a reminder of what happens to your subscription:
Delete volume confirmation dialog with permanent-action warning, Subscription Billing notice that remaining days return to your account balance, and red Delete button
The dialog shows:
  • The volume name and a clear “this action cannot be undone” warning
  • A blue Subscription Billing info panel — “Your current subscription will be cancelled and the remaining days will be returned to your account balance”
  • Cancel and Delete (red) buttons
Click Delete. The volume disappears from the list within seconds.

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What happens on delete

ResourceResult
Volume contentsDestroyed — every byte unrecoverable
SubscriptionClosed; unused days and hours credited back to your account balance
Volume snapshotsRetained — snapshots live independently of the source volume
Backups (none for volumes today)n/a — Raff backups apply to VMs, not volumes; volume snapshots are the protective copy
VM /etc/fstab entriesStill on the VM — clean up to avoid boot warnings

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Subscription credit on delete

When you delete a volume mid-term (Monthly / Yearly / 2-Year), the prorated unused time is credited to your account balance. The credit is immediate and can fund another volume, top up a VM subscription, or sit until your next renewal. It is not refunded to your card — see Billing model.

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Recover a deleted volume

You can’t undelete. Recovery options:
  • From a volume snapshot — if you took one before delete, create a new volume from it. (Snapshots survive volume delete, but not VM delete in the case of volume snapshots tied to a since-deleted VM — keep at least one snapshot per protective generation.)
  • From a copy elsewhere — Object Storage, off-platform backups, or a database dump.
  • From scratch — if you have neither, the data is gone.
This is why production volumes should run a snapshot schedule.

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Next steps

Volume types

What lives on a volume vs the VM’s base disk.

Storage model

How volumes fit alongside snapshots, backups, and images.
Last modified on May 8, 2026