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Filesystem

Each E2B Sandbox has its own isolated filesystem. The Hobby tier sandboxes come with 10 GB of the free disk space and Pro tier sandboxes come with 20 GB.

With E2B SDK you can:

Read and write files to the sandbox.
Attach custom metadata to files.
Watch directory for changes.
Upload data to the sandbox.
Download data from the sandbox.

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