Additional logical volumes in the thin pool assigned to Qubes

[Ville Rantanen]

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?

Cheers,
Ville Rantanen

[Chris Laprise]

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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