How can I make a second hard disk available to an app-vm's fstab

[decuser]

Hi,

I'm a qubes newbie, but I am learning a lot about security, firewalls, and networking in general through my exploration with the os. I have created an rsyncd server as a standalone, debian app-vm and appropriately configured the firewall in sys-net, sys-firewall and my-rsyncd. I am able to connect and use rsync to store files on the server from a machine other than the qubes machine. Yay. However, I did notice that I had to connect the storage (it's an internal sata drive) as a block device after I booted the server in order to have the data disk available for mounting. I looked around for help and didn't see anything that seemed to really fit with my problem (just want to tell qubes to attach the block device to the app-vm at startup). I searched google and found a really popular message with some pretty arcane instructions about allowing the app-vm to run scripts on qubes dom0 and that just sounds wrong on so many levels that I thought I would ask it here in the hopes of finding some simple instructions, advice, and or rationale.

Is is possible to make a second hard disk available to an app-vm's fstab so that it can be mounted when the vm starts up? If it's a security no-brainer why this is an ill conceived idea, I would appreciate hearing about that as well, but really, I just want my rsyncd app-vm to have access to that honking big drive when it starts up without my having to manually mount stuff every time I restart.

Thanks for being patient with the newbs,

Will

[Unman]

Hi Will

Strangely enough I've just addressed exactly this issue in another post
- look at the thread on "storage occupancy on qubes os" for one approach
to take. It's not hard to do and you should be able to adapt that to
your circumstances quite easily: if not, post your problem, and we'll
try to help.

unman

[Ted Brenner]

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