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  Creates a new persistent disk within GCE, based on another disk.
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# google\_compute\_disk

Creates a new persistent disk within GCE, based on another disk.

## Example Usage

```js
resource "google_compute_disk" "default" {
  name  = "test-disk"
  type  = "pd-ssd"
  zone  = "us-central1-a"
  image = "debian7-wheezy"
}
```

## Argument Reference

The following arguments are supported:

* `name` - (Required) A unique name for the resource, required by GCE.
    Changing this forces a new resource to be created.

* `zone` - (Required) The zone where this disk will be available.

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* `image` - (Optional) The image from which to initialize this disk. Either the
    full URL, a contraction of the form "project/name", or just a name (in which
    case the current project is used).

* `project` - (Optional) The project in which the resource belongs. If it
    is not provided, the provider project is used.

* `size` - (Optional) The size of the image in gigabytes. If not specified, it
    will inherit the size of its base image.

* `snapshot` - (Optional) Name of snapshot from which to initialize this disk.

* `type` - (Optional) The GCE disk type.

## Attributes Reference

In addition to the arguments listed above, the following computed attributes are
exported:

* `self_link` - The URI of the created resource.