Best Storage Capacity? and how do I make this setup...?

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@ledOnion

On a side note, is it possible to also create a seperate boot partition in a USB drive so I would have to plug it in when I boot my PC in order to start my OS? I did try it once but I wasn’t able to finish setting up Qubes that way.

Here’s one guide for this.

Qubes OS Installation - BTRFS w/ Detached encrypted boot and header

Continuing the discussion from Qubes OS Installation - Detached encrypted boot and header: In above thread I use xfs with uefi + gpt. In here I will using mbr + bios with btrfs blake2 checksum. Keep in mind that below are disk i used in the tutorial, you can use 2 flashdrive (1 boot, 1 header) + 1 hdd or whatever you want. and btw I don’t detach swap partition, well i think you should. Do write out to /dev/sdb3 if you want Take this as additional challenge I use different …

@ledOnion

How much do Qubes VMs usually take up?

100GB of disk space can easily accommodate 20+ linux templates, which offers decent isolation of installed softwares. Your user data are counted separately, because those are stored in the private volumes of you AppVMs, not in the root volumes of templateVMs that are shared.