Increase user space (/home/user) in personal VM

[Pawel Debski]

Folks,

when I run out of space, how do I increase /home filesystem in my personal domain?

Best regards
PD

[Andrew David Wong]

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Qubes VM Manager -> Select VM -> VM Settings -> Increase "Private storage max. size" -> OK

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

Thanks Andrew,

that's what I exactly did and it works. However could you please either point me to the docs or explain how /home actually works.

What I usually do on other distros (physical install) is that I have a separate filesystem mounted on /home.

On Qubes however, when I do:

[user@fedora-usb ~]$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/dmroot 10190136 5834236 3815228 61% /
/dev/xvdd 388480 152867 215133 42% /usr/lib/modules/4.4.31-11.pvops.qubes.x86_64
devtmpfs 177280 0 177280 0% /dev
tmpfs 1048576 364 1048212 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 184212 848 183364 1% /run
tmpfs 184212 0 184212 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 1048576 12 1048564 1% /tmp
/dev/xvdb 4062912 584324 3462204 15% /rw
tmpfs 36844 20 36824 1% /run/user/1000

which one is actually /home filesystem?

[Andrew David Wong]

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On 2017-01-01 08:29, Pawel Debski wrote:
> W dniu niedziela, 1 stycznia 2017 16:35:59 UTC+1 użytkownik Andrew David Wong napisał:
> On 2017-01-01 07:31, Pawel Debski wrote:
>>>> Folks,
>>>>
>>>> when I run out of space, how do I increase /home filesystem in my personal domain?
>>>>
>>>> Best regards
>>>> PD
>>>>
>
> Qubes VM Manager -> Select VM -> VM Settings -> Increase "Private storage max. size" -> OK
>
>

> Thanks Andrew,
>
> that's what I exactly did and it works. However could you please either point me to the docs or explain how /home actually works.
>
> What I usually do on other distros (physical install) is that I have a separate filesystem mounted on /home.
>
> On Qubes however, when I do:
>
> [user@fedora-usb ~]$ df
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/mapper/dmroot 10190136 5834236 3815228 61% /
> /dev/xvdd 388480 152867 215133 42% /usr/lib/modules/4.4.31-11.pvops.qubes.x86_64
> devtmpfs 177280 0 177280 0% /dev
> tmpfs 1048576 364 1048212 1% /dev/shm
> tmpfs 184212 848 183364 1% /run
> tmpfs 184212 0 184212 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
> tmpfs 1048576 12 1048564 1% /tmp
> /dev/xvdb 4062912 584324 3462204 15% /rw
> tmpfs 36844 20 36824 1% /run/user/1000
>
> which one is actually /home filesystem?
>

/home is bind mounted to /rw/home, so in your case, it's /dev/xvdb (mounted on /rw).

https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/template-implementation/

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

You can see the mount points using findmnt, which has the benefit of
identifying the bind sources.
Alternatively examining /etc/fstab would help seeing where /home is set.