title: Can I use Cloud Shell with more than the 5 GB persistent storage?
body: <p>According to the <a href="https://cloud.google.com/shell/docs/how-cloud-shell-works#persistent_disk_storage" rel="nofollow noreferrer">docs</a>:</p>
  
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    <p>Cloud Shell provisions 5 GB of free persistent disk storage mounted as your <code>$HOME</code> directory on the virtual machine instance.</p>
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  <p>I would need more (paid) storage though that I can access from the Cloud Shell environment and that is persistent across my sessions. It's mostly used to store local clones of git repositories and images. I would be the only one to access these files.</p>
  
  <p>It seems that the 5 GB storage is a hard limit, so it won't expand dynamically and bill me for the exceeding amount. It is possible to use Boost Mode, but that does not affect the storage size. And I also can't provision more storage with a <a href="https://cloud.google.com/shell/docs/custom-environments" rel="nofollow noreferrer">custom Cloud Shell environment</a>. I couldn't figure out if I can mount another GCE persistent disk to my <code>$HOME</code>. I was considering <a href="https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/gcs-fuse" rel="nofollow noreferrer">gcs-fuse</a> as suggested <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/57718009/1549523">in this answer</a> but I'm not sure if it is suitable for git repos.</p>
  
  <p>Is there any way to have more storage available in Cloud Shell?</p>