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General·HTTP 422·API, CLI, FE

Volume managed on its service

volume_requires_legacy_mounts

This volume is mounted from its service's storage settings.

What this means​

The volume was made before volumes came in sizes, so its mounts are managed on the service.

How to fix it​

Mount it from the service's storage settings.

Retry behavior​

Sending the same request again gets the same answer.

How it appears in the response​

ComputeSphere returns errors as RFC 7807 Problem Details. The type field is the docs URL for this page — switch on code in your client.

{
  "type":    "https://docs.computesphere.com/errors/volume_requires_legacy_mounts",
  "title":   "Volume managed on its service",
  "status":  422,
  "code":    "volume_requires_legacy_mounts",
  "detail":  "This volume is mounted from its service's storage settings.",
  "instance": "/v2/…",
  "request_id": "f47ac10b-58cc-4372-a567-0e02b2c3d479",
  "trace_id":   null
}

The Content-Type header is application/problem+json. On field-level validation errors a non-empty errors[] array also appears, each entry carrying its own docs_url for the offending field.