On 3/30/19 2:22 PM, Ville Rantanen wrote:
Hey,

I am in the process of configuring Qubes, and I have one question to save myself a bit of time in figuring it out myself.

Can a thin pool that I assign to Qubes with "qvm-pool --add" have other logical volumes than the ones created and used by Qubes? Or does Qubes assume the pool is dedicated to it and does it remove the existing logical volumes when I add the pool?

Other lvs are OK to have in qubes-assigned pools. I'm not aware of any caveats except for the obvious: Name your custom lvs something different from what Qubes would ever use for a vm. So in general, avoid lv names that begin with 'vm-' and end with one of the following: private, root, snap, back, volatile.

My incremental lv backup tool creates additional lvs (snapshots) that take a vm volume's name and append a unique suffix. Also, Qubes currently uses dashes only for separators, so using the other 3 lvm-allowed symbols ( . _ + ) will set your names apart.

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