INCUS.STORAGE.VOLUME.FILE.CREATE(1)

✨ incus-storage-volume-file-create ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Incus - Command line client manual, page one, and this is the one about the incus-storage-volume-file-create command 💅 it makes files and directories inside a custom vollume, and yes we're gonna get into it.

🌸 NAME 🌸

incus-storage-volume-file-create — Create files and directories in custom vollume 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

incus storage volume file create [:] / [] [flags]

like… that's the shape of it, okay? that's the vibe. moving on 💖

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Description:

Create files and directories in custom volume 🫶

that's it. that's the whole job. you point it at a custom volume and it goes "boom, file" or "boom, directory" and honestly? iconic. no cap.

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -p, --create-dirs[=false] — Create any directories necessary 🗂️ like, if the path you want doesn't exist yet, girl, it'll build the whole road for you.
• -f, --force[=false] — Force creating files or directories 💪 no chill, no hesitation, it just does the thing.
• --gid=-1 — Set the file's gid on create 👥 yeah, that's the group id, and it defaults to -1.
• --mode="" — Set the file's perms on create 🔐 permissions go here, and the default is "" (empty, bestie, it's giving mystery).
• -t, --type="file" — The type to create (file, symlink, or directory) 🌈 so your options are file, symlink, or directory, and it defaults to file like the main character it is.
• --uid=-1 — Set the file's uid on create 🫧 that's user id, and it defaults to -1.

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🌟 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 🌟

these ones come from the parent commands, so they're like… the family traits 💜

• --debug[=false] — Show all debug messages 🐛
• --explain[=false] — If the command is valid, explain its parsed arguments instead of running it 🔍 it literally just tells you what it would have done. so nosy. love it.
• --force-local[=false] — Force using the local unix socket 🧦
• -h, --help[=false] — Print help 🙋‍♀️
• --project="" — Override the source project 📁 default is "".
• -q, --quiet[=false] — Don't show progress information 🤫
• --sub-commands[=false] — Use with help or --help to view sub-commands 🪜
• -v, --verbose[=false] — Show all information messages 📢
• --version[=false] — Print version number 🔢

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🍓 EXAMPLE 🍓

okay so here's how you actually use this thing:

incus storage volume file create foo bar/baz

To create a file baz in the bar volume on the foo pool. ✅

incus file create --type=symlink foo bar/baz qux

To create a symlink qux in bar storage volume on the foo pool whose target is baz. 🔗✨

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💖 SEE ALSO 💖

• incus-storage-volume-file(1) — go read the sibling page, bestie, they're a package deal 🫶

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📜 HISTORY 📜

• 24-Sep-2026 — Auto generated by spf13/cobra 🤖

ngl this whole page was auto generated by spf13/cobra, so if it sounds like a robot wrote it, that's because a robot did. slay anyway 💅

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and that's the page!! Auto generated by spf13/cobra, Sep 2026, from the Incus - Command line client era of the docs. go forth and create files, queen 👑💖 ily bye!!