Detach Boot Disk from GCE VM

Question

I am trying to detach the Boot Disk from a GCE VM. As the VM is stopped so it should allow me to detach it but it\'s returning this error

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Answer 1

You can't hot-remove the root disk of a VM otherwise you'd render it unusable (shutdown assumes you want to start the VM at a later point). Instead, you can delete the VM instance, making sure to preserve the root disk for future use.