## Create

**post** `/v2/volumes`

To create a new volume, send a POST request to `/v2/volumes`. Optionally, a `filesystem_type` attribute may be provided in order to automatically format the volume's filesystem. Pre-formatted volumes are automatically mounted when attached to Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Fedora Atomic, and CentOS Droplets created on or after April 26, 2018. Attaching pre-formatted volumes to Droplets without support for auto-mounting is not recommended.

### Returns

- **volume:** `object`

  - **id:** `string`

    The unique identifier for the block storage volume.

  - **created\_at:** `string`

    A time value given in ISO8601 combined date and time format that represents when the block storage volume was created.

  - **description:** `string`

    An optional free-form text field to describe a block storage volume.

  - **droplet\_ids:** `array of number`

    An array containing the IDs of the Droplets the volume is attached to. Note that at this time, a volume can only be attached to a single Droplet.

  - **filesystem\_label:** `string`

    The label currently applied to the filesystem.

  - **filesystem\_type:** `string`

    The type of filesystem currently in-use on the volume.

  - **name:** `string`

    A human-readable name for the block storage volume. Must be lowercase and be composed only of numbers, letters and "-", up to a limit of 64 characters. The name must begin with a letter.

  - **region:** `Region`

    The region that the block storage volume is located in. When setting a region, the value should be the slug identifier for the region. When you query a block storage volume, the entire region object will be returned.

  - **size\_gigabytes:** `number`

    The size of the block storage volume in GiB (1024^3). This field does not apply  when creating a volume from a snapshot.

  - **tags:** `array of string`

    A flat array of tag names as strings applied to the resource. <br><br>Requires `tag:read` scope.