Thanks all for your help. I assume fdisk can do all this right? And that does appear to be in dom0.
On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 1:58 PM, <aperi.auc...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Monday, January 30, 2017 at 1:26:01 AM UTC+1, Ángel wrote: > > Ted Brenner wrote: > > > What is the best way to add and partition disks in dom0? I just added > > > some hard drives that I'd like to format and partition and then pass > > > those to a guest VM for storing my person files. With xfce, I don't > > > see any GUI based disk utility. Does this have to be done via the > > > command line? > > > > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > I would recommend you to simply attach the disks to be formatted into a > > VM and format them there. What's the point of exposing dom0 to them? > > You can later attach them to the same or different VM for usage. > > Is it reliable though? For example will the result always be exactly the > same as if the drive was managed in Dom0? Does the used file-system matter > if applied through a VM or are any possible factors completely unaffected? > For example is there a difference to manage BTRFS, ZFS, NTFS, EXT4, random > exotic FS, RAID of any build kind, HDD/SSD, old or new cutting edge drive > technologies, or any other possible factor, through a VM compared to a bare > metal OS? > Anything at all to look out for if undertaking changes on a drive through > a VM? > > Does it pose a risk change in the rate of bit errors? For example from > file system or drive error odds with an 1 in 10^15, to 1 in 10^7 risk > increase? > It is after all better to be proactive to prevent possible issues, than it > is to leave it unknown, when it comes to precious irreplaceable important > data. > > Best practice in terms of security, yes sure, but is it also best practice > in terms of data integrity? Is there any possible trade-offs here to be > aware of? > > There may be no difference at all, or there may be. But the point is, for > those not in the knowing, which one is it? It would be great to be > reasonably certain when using new technology where important data is > involved, where common sense may need an update, rather than being among > the first victims due to outdated assumptions, relics of an old age in an > ever faster changing world. > > So taking all that into account, all possible factors included, is it > really just as reliable to manage drives in VM's as when done in Dom0? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "qubes-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/qubes-users/139be9c2-aa22-44ce-bea1-105be40e1f60%40googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Sent from my Desktop -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/CANKZutySW-N8qFXS3QVnH1MZU-xQ5LHjSZteTvovRMeb3QbXNQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
