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title: "Drives"
description: "Drives (slice D8): disks of a project's that outlive the sandboxes that have them, each a block device with its own ext4, copied into the object store as it is written, and mounted read-write by one sandbox at a time, on any node of its region. A Drive is a volume of the kind `drive`: `/v1/volumes` shows it too, as it did. A snapshot of a Drive (slice D7) is a version of it in the object store, nothing copied: taken (`POST /v1/drives/{id}/snapshots`), forked into a new Drive, restored to, and mounted read-only by any number of sandboxes at once (`mode` `snapshot`); it outlives its Drive, and is billed for what it keeps alone."
---

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Drives (slice D8): disks of a project's that outlive the sandboxes that have them, each a block device with its own ext4, copied into the object store as it is written, and mounted read-write by one sandbox at a time, on any node of its region. A Drive is a volume of the kind `drive`: `/v1/volumes` shows it too, as it did. A snapshot of a Drive (slice D7) is a version of it in the object store, nothing copied: taken (`POST /v1/drives/{id}/snapshots`), forked into a new Drive, restored to, and mounted read-only by any number of sandboxes at once (`mode` `snapshot`); it outlives its Drive, and is billed for what it keeps alone.

## Operations

- [List the project's Drives](/docs/api/drives/list/)
- [Make a Drive](/docs/api/drives/create/)
- [A Drive](/docs/api/drives/retrieve/)
- [Delete a Drive](/docs/api/drives/delete/)
- [Rename a Drive, or set its window of versions](/docs/api/drives/update/)
- [A Drive's snapshots](/docs/api/drives/list-drive-snapshots/)
- [Take a snapshot of a Drive](/docs/api/drives/create-drive-snapshot/)
- [A snapshot of a Drive](/docs/api/drives/get-drive-snapshot/)
- [Delete a snapshot of a Drive](/docs/api/drives/delete-drive-snapshot/)
- [The project's snapshots of Drives](/docs/api/drive-snapshots/list/)
- [Fork a Drive](/docs/api/drives/fork-drive/)
- [List the versions a Drive's window keeps](/docs/api/drives/list-drive-versions/)
- [Restore a Drive to one of its snapshots, or to a time](/docs/api/drives/restore-drive/)
- [Move a Drive's home to the region it is in](/docs/api/drives/move-drive-home/)
- [Attach a Drive to a running sandbox](/docs/api/sandboxes/attach-drive/)
- [Detach a Drive from a sandbox](/docs/api/sandboxes/detach-drive/)

## Sections

- [Volumes](/docs/api/tags/volumes/)
- [Backups](/docs/api/tags/backups/)


Source: https://glac.ai/docs/api/tags/drives/index.md