Setting Bootable Flag for an EVS Disk

This API is used to set the bootable flag for an EVS disk.

Even if this API was called to set a data disk to bootable, this data disk still cannot be used as a system disk for a cloud server.

For details, see Calling APIs.

POST /v3/{project_id}/volumes/{volume_id}/action

**Table 1** Path Parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
project_id	Yes	String	The project ID. For details about how to obtain the project ID, see Obtaining a Project ID.
volume_id	Yes	String	The disk ID.

**Table 2** Request header parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
X-Auth-Token	Yes	String	The user token. It can be obtained by calling the IAM API used to obtain a user token. The value of X-Subject-Token in the response header is the user token.

**Table 3** Request body parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
os-set_bootable	Yes	CinderUpdateVolumeBootableOption object	The bootable setting marker.

**Table 4** CinderUpdateVolumeBootableOption
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
bootable	Yes	Boolean	Whether to set the bootable flag for the disk. The value can be true (bootable) or false (non-bootable). Default: true

Status code: 400

**Table 5** Response body parameters
Parameter	Type	Description
error	Error object	The error message returned if an error occurs.

**Table 6** Error
Parameter	Type	Description
code	String	The error code returned if an error occurs. For details about error codes and their meanings, see Error Codes.
message	String	The error message returned if an error occurs.

POST https://{endpoint}/v3/{project_id}/volumes/{volume_id}/action

{
  "os-set_bootable" : {
    "bootable" : true
  }
}

Status code: 400

Bad Request

{
  "error" : {
    "message" : "XXXX",
    "code" : "XXX"
  }
}

Status Code	Description
200	OK
400	Bad Request

Parent Topic: Disk Management

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