How to Manage Attachments for Vultr File System Volume

1 min readUpdated 23 October 2026

Attach a Vultr File System volume to Cloud Compute instances for shared files, or detach it, via Console or Terraform.

Attaching a Vultr File System volume to a Vultr Cloud Compute instance allows the instance to discover the serverless volume as a new storage device. You can then mount the Vultr File System volume to share files across different Vultr Cloud Compute instances. You can remove a Vultr File System volume from a Vultr Cloud Compute instance.

Follow this guide to manage attachments for Vultr File System volume using the Vultr Console or Terraform.

Navigate to Products and select Compute.
Click the Vultr Cloud Compute instance you want to attach to the Vultr File System volume.
Navigate to Settings and click Change Memory Backing. Select Shared and click Update.
Navigate to Products and select Cloud Storage. Then, click File System.
Select the target Vultr File System volume you want to attach to the Vultr Cloud Compute instance.
Navigate to the File System Information and click Attachments.
Click Attach to attach the Vultr File System volume to your target Vultr Cloud Compute instance.
Confirm the new change.
Navigate to Attachments and click Detach to remove the Vultr File System volume from the Vultr Cloud Compute instance.

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