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Setting Bootable Flag for an EVS Disk

Function

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

Constraints

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.

Calling Method

For details, see Calling APIs.

URI

POST /v2/{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.

Request Parameters

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

Response Parameters

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.

Example Requests

Setting a disk as the boot disk

POST https://{endpoint}/v2/{project_id}/volumes/{volume_id}/action

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

Example Responses

Status code: 400

Bad Request

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

Status Codes

Status Code

Description

200

OK

400

Bad Request

Error Codes

See Error Codes.

Parent Topic: Disk Management