On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 8:47 PM, Unman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 02:57:30PM -0800, decuser wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm a qubes newbie, but I am learning a lot about security, firewalls, > and networking in general through my exploration with the os. I have > created an rsyncd server as a standalone, debian app-vm and appropriately > configured the firewall in sys-net, sys-firewall and my-rsyncd. I am able > to connect and use rsync to store files on the server from a machine other > than the qubes machine. Yay. However, I did notice that I had to connect > the storage (it's an internal sata drive) as a block device after I booted > the server in order to have the data disk available for mounting. I looked > around for help and didn't see anything that seemed to really fit with my > problem (just want to tell qubes to attach the block device to the app-vm > at startup). I searched google and found a really popular message with some > pretty arcane instructions about allowing the app-vm to run scripts on > qubes dom0 and that just sounds wrong on so many levels that I thought I > would ask it here in the hopes of finding some simple instructions, advice, > and or rationale. > > > > Is is possible to make a second hard disk available to an app-vm's fstab > so that it can be mounted when the vm starts up? If it's a security > no-brainer why this is an ill conceived idea, I would appreciate hearing > about that as well, but really, I just want my rsyncd app-vm to have access > to that honking big drive when it starts up without my having to manually > mount stuff every time I restart. > > > > Thanks for being patient with the newbs, > > > > Will > > > > Hi Will > > Strangely enough I've just addressed exactly this issue in another post > - look at the thread on "storage occupancy on qubes os" for one approach > to take. It's not hard to do and you should be able to adapt that to > your circumstances quite easily: if not, post your problem, and we'll > try to help. > > unman > > -- > 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/qubes-users/20170310024738.GB13357%40thirdeyesecurity.org. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > Did you find this thread? https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/qubes-users/fstab$20startup%7Csort:relevance/qubes-users/RogG5rXG_Pw/8-AsBuH2QAAJ -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/CANKZutx04xcsJLJzMYX2ddioMPsUgM9dQEudOU4FnnrA0%2BT8%3DA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
