On Sunday, 7 June 2020 16:28:54 UTC+1, unman wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jun 07, 2020 at 04:04:25AM -0700, Andrew Sullivan wrote: 
> > 
> > 
> > On Sunday, 7 June 2020 07:12:23 UTC+1, haaber wrote: 
> > > 
> > > On 6/6/20 6:33 PM, Andrew Sullivan wrote: 
> > > > 
> > > >         If you use qvm-block in dom0 can you see the 
> disk/partitions? 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > >           Don't know, I'll give it a try and post back. 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > OK, if I click on the  Devices widget I can indeed see all the 
> > > > partitions on my internal SSD, with an arrow next to each.  If I 
> click 
> > > > the arrow I get a list of qubes, which I believe allows me to attach 
> the 
> > > > selected partition to where I want.  However, when I do this I can't 
> > > > find the partition in the Files application in the qube.  Think I'm 
> > > > still missing something...  Also, am I correct that this attachment 
> will 
> > > > only persist until I close the qube? 
> > > 
> > > they will be inserted in the appvm-qube as /dev/xvdi, /dev/xvdk ... 
> > > [vd = virtual device, I guess]. The existence of a device does not 
> mean 
> > > mounting it. I do that by hand: in a terminal, type 
> > > 
> > >     sudo mount /dev/xvdi /media 
> > > 
> > > will mount the attached device to /media and allow file access. If it 
> is 
> > > a luks-encrypted system, do 
> > > 
> > >     sudo crypsetup luksOpen  /dev/xvdi  MYSSDVOL 
> > >     sudo mount  /dev/mapper/MYSSDVOL    /media 
> > > 
> > >     cheers 
> > > 
> > 
> > Many thanks for that, works exactly as described!  Seems a bit strange 
> that 
> > the partition isn't mounted at the time it was attached (not sure why 
> you'd 
> > want to attach it if you didn't plan to read or write to it?).   
> Anyways... 
>
> You may want to read/write *without* mounting - for example, when using 
> dd to write a disk image. 
>
> > 
> > Is there any way the attachment and mounting can be made permanent? 
> > 
>
> `man` is your friend - specifically `man qvm-block`. 
> You will see that there is indeed a `--persistent` option. 
>
> Mounting could be a simple (and standard) entry in /etc/fstab - nothing 
> Qubes 
> specific here. Or simply a call to `mount`. 
> Make sure that you use a good identifier - /dev/xvdi may or may not work 
> - a label or UUID would be much better. 
> Again `man fstab` and `man mount` will help. 
>
> The Qubes specific part will be to make sure that any changes you  make 
> to /etc/fstab are persistent - you could do this using bind-dirs or by 
> an entry in /rw/config/rc.local 
>
>
>
>
> > Next challenge - access files on another Linux laptop on the same 
> network! 
> > 
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Thanks, that's very helpful, I'll give it a try. 

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