topic re: dbfs on free edition in Databricks Free Edition Help

re: dbfs on free edition

smpa01 — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 15:16:08 GMT

Thank you very much for the new free edition.

I have a question related to dbfs.

Am I to understand that dbfs is disabled in this edition and one needs to bring their own storage. I tried this and failed. What do I need to do in order to be able to use dbfs in the free edition.

dbutils.fs.mkdirs("dbfs:/test_folder") # ExecutionError: Public DBFS root is disabled. Access is denied on path: /test_folder

Thank you very much in advance.

Re: re: dbfs on free edition

szymon_dybczak — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 15:56:50 GMT

Hi @smpa01 ,

In Free Edition dbfs is disabled. You should use Unity Catalog for that purpose anyway. DBFS is depracated pattern of interacting with storage.

So, to use volume perform following steps:

Go to Catalgos (1) -> Click workspace catalog (2) -> Click default schema -> Clikc Create button (3)

On the Create button (3) you will have an option to create volume. Pick a name and then create volume.

If you did that, your new volume should appear in Unity Catalog under default schema. Now you will have an option to upload file to Volume:

And here's an example of how to read csv from volume into dataframe:

Re: re: dbfs on free edition

smpa01 — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 16:13:27 GMT

Many thanks, I just realized after creating the post through resource

Re: re: dbfs on free edition

szymon_dybczak — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 16:49:02 GMT

Hi @smpa01 ,

No problem, happy to help