On 2/4/19 4:42 PM, Chris Laprise wrote: > On 2/4/19 4:12 PM, Stuart Perkins wrote: >> >> >> On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 21:27:44 +0100 >> Stefan Schlott <ste...@ploing.de> wrote: >> >>> On 2/4/19 5:59 PM, Stuart Perkins wrote: >>> >>>> I do not know the official stance or method, but I symbolically >>>> link from the standard appVM location to my other drive where I >>>> have the larger appVM's. Mine is always available so I don't know >>>> if Qubes would boot if it weren't, but it is a thought...obviously >>>> the drive would need to be available to start the appVM's located >>>> thereon. >>> >>> This is what I did on Qubes 3.2. On Qubes 4.0, I used the new thin pool >>> provisioning, so the symlink trick doesn't work anymore... >>> >>> Stefan. >>> >>> >> >> Ah, but if the path must be "provisioned" in order to boot qubes >> itself, that sounds like a more difficult way to do it. >> > > The workaround would be to have either A) installed Qubes with a > regular filesystem (without thin LVM) or B) setup a secondary but > "always available" non-LVM pool on your internal drive. Then symlinks > can be used. > > @Stefan: Would you post this as a feature-request issue? If not, I may > do so because having Qubes support removable storage pools > automatically could be valuable to a lot of people. >
Here are my notes on adding a 2nd disk to Qubes 4. I think they correctly document what I did, but it was several months ago. There was a page called this that I referred to. https://www.qubes-os.org/secondary-storage I don't see that page today. sudo su - cryptsetup luksFormat --hash=sha512 --key-size=512 --cipher=aes-xts-plain64 --verify-passphrase /dev/sdb use blkid to see the new item add it to /etc/crypttab reboot pvcreate /dev/mapper/luks-c38b8e68-ce41-4474-81c9-226599812715 vgcreate qubes_data /dev/mapper/luks-c38b8e68-ce41-4474-81c9-226599812715 lvcreate -T -n qubes_disk2 -l +100%FREE qubes_data qvm-pool --add pool_qubes_disk2 lvm_thin -o volume_group=qubes_data,thin_pool=qubes_disk2,revisions_to_keep=2 # to create vm using this pool qvm-create -P pool_qubes_disk2 --label blue data -- 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/ee88bf92-8b44-4b4e-ffe8-08f3274066f1%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
