On Mon, November 27, 2017 05:22, Gaijin wrote:
> In R3.2 I have some additional internal hard drives in my PC. I wanted
> to format them to be encrypted so that they will match the disk
> encryption of my main Qubes disk install, and so that I won't have to
> enter the disk password every time I access the drives or attach them to
> a VM. I have not been able to figure this out. Is this possible?

Yes, give them the exact same password as your primary and mount them by
UUID in both /etc/crypttab and /etc/fstab.

> My other issue is that whether I encrypt the drive partitions with LUKS
> or just make a ext4 partition, I can't access the drives after creating
> them because they're assigned ownership to the root account. Normal
> Qubes use is thru the dom0 account or the user account on the VMs, not
> root. What would be a good permissions setting to allow dom0 or a VM
> access the hard drives?

I think if you mount them as part of boot you will have less trouble.
Don't remember having to do anything special with permissions, but review
the ones set on /var/lib/qubes if needed. Also see
https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/secondary-storage/ .


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