Move homedir to second drive

[Tom Zander]

I have a ‘work’ VM which holds a significant amount of user-data and as such
I want my homedir to be hosted on my spinning-disk drive.

I’m more than fine just using a standard btrfs partition there, I really like
the snapshotting option there, but this does imply I would need to
automatically assign this partition to the VM at vm-start. Probably from
dom0.

I can write a script and only start the VM that way, but it feels there
musts be a better way.
Does anyone know of a way to do this auto-bind?

Thanks!
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Tom Zander
Blog: https://zander.github.io
Vlog: https://vimeo.com/channels/tomscryptochannel

[Andrew David Wong]

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On 2017-11-27 16:03, 'Tom Zander' via qubes-users wrote:
> I have a ‘work’ VM which holds a significant amount of user-data
> and as such I want my homedir to be hosted on my spinning-disk
> drive.
>
> I’m more than fine just using a standard btrfs partition there, I
> really like the snapshotting option there, but this does imply I
> would need to automatically assign this partition to the VM at
> vm-start. Probably from dom0.
>
> I can write a script and only start the VM that way, but it feels
> there musts be a better way. Does anyone know of a way to do this
> auto-bind?
>
> Thanks!
>

This option works well for me on 3.2 (doesn't require auto-bind):

https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/secondary-storage/

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Andrew David Wong (Axon)
Community Manager, Qubes OS
https://www.qubes-os.org

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[Tom Zander]

On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 03:07:02 CET Andrew David Wong wrote:
> On 2017-11-27 16:03, 'Tom Zander' via qubes-users wrote:
> > I have a ‘work’ VM which holds a significant amount of user-data
> > and as such I want my homedir to be hosted on my spinning-disk
> > drive.

[snip]

> This option works well for me on 3.2 (doesn't require auto-bind):
>
> https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/secondary-storage/

Thanks for your answer,

it seems like this is no longer an option in 4.0 because VMs are no longer
directories on the dom0 filesystem.
I may be wrong, but I understand they are actually partitions now.