On 08/31/2018 01:40 PM, Guy Frank wrote:
On Friday, August 31, 2018 at 12:17:54 PM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote:
Guy Frank:
One question I had is whether there is any way to set an unencrypted (or
encrypted?) external HD as the /home folder for a VM?
Guy
Hi Guy,
I'm not sure about setting it as /home but i think it's possible. But
it's easy to attach an external HD to a vm and save your files to it.
https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/usb/
Also it's pretty easy to encrypt it with luks for security, it just
takes a little longer each time.
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Jackie
Thanks Jackie for your reply!
I remember it being fairly easy to attach USB devices w/ the right clicks here
& there. So, yes, I'd have access to the files on my external HD.
But it would be more convenient if I could get Qubes to mount the home folder
on the HD as the Home folder for the given virtual machine. I imagine that's
trickier and was wondering if there's a way to do it?
Maybe use a script to mount the attached USB drive home (/home/guyuser) over
the Qubes home directory? But then, if that's possible, some of the setup in
the Qubes home directory might get missed.
The key to using it as /home would be to setup a new storage pool to
hold that VM. Unfortunately the docs could use a rewrite:
https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/storage-pools/
The relevant commands are 'qvm-pool --add' and 'qvm-create --pool'.
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