topic Re: Public DBFS root is disabled in Databricks free edition in Data Engineering

Public DBFS root is disabled in Databricks free edition

Loinguyen318 — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 14:06:29 GMT

I am using notebook to execute a sample spark to write delta table in dbfs using free edition. However, I face an issue, that I can not access the public DBFS after the code executed.

The spark code such as:

data = spark.range(0, 5)
data.write.format("delta").save("/tmp/delta-table")

This is the log error:

Public DBFS root is disabled. Access is denied on path: /tmp/delta-table/_delta_log

Re: Public DBFS root is disabled in Databricks free edition

vivadiva — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 20:11:19 GMT

I am having the same issue.

I wish to create a new folder

dbutils.fs.mkdirs("/sampledir")

and I get this error

ExecutionError: Public DBFS root is disabled. Access is denied on path: /sampledir

Re: Public DBFS root is disabled in Databricks free edition

Sharanya13 — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 01:08:20 GMT

Can you use UCVolumes instead of DBFS?

Can you use UCVolumes instead of DBFS? Databricks will disable DBFS as it moves to a serverless approach. I would use UCVoulmes - convenient and governed by UC.Databricks will disable DBFS, as it adopts a serverless approach. I would use UCVoulmes - convenient and governed by UC

Re: Public DBFS root is disabled in Databricks free edition

pepco — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 03:13:30 GMT

Hello,

I would like to re-open this topic if possible. While using UC volumes was marked as accepted answer I would like to ask what are my options. I'm playing with custom logging handler and I would like to write logs into the files. Since DBFS is not enabled and UC volumes don't support direct I/O do I have some other options?

I could add handler to log into the table I'm not sure if I want to do row-by-row inserts.

Are there some other options?

Re: Public DBFS root is disabled in Databricks free edition

mukul1409 — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 15:47:41 GMT

Yes , use UCVolumes instead of DBFS. As Databricks moves toward a serverless architecture, DBFS access is being increasingly restricted and is not intended for long term or production usage. UC Volumes are a better choice than DBFS.