How I learned to love Liteqube (and why you should, too, even if you have enough RAM)

[arkenoi]

Probably you are right. I had some sentimental value in shrink part, like, “see how small it is now!” but the practical reason behind that is close to zero these days.

Also, it now breaks on 4.2 because new Debian templates use some obscure e2fs feature not supported by Fedora 37 dom0. And it was the wrong way to do it anyway, since the dom0 is not actually protected from malformed data on guest FS and the secure, recommended way to do is to attach block devices for disposable VMs for all manipulations:

Shrinking volumes

The procedure for shrinking a volume on Ext4 and most other filesystems is bit convoluted because online shrinking isn’t supported and we don’t want to process any untrusted data in dom0 for security reasons. Shrinking volumes is dangerous and this is why it isn’t available in standard Qubes tools. If you have enough disk space, the recommended approach is to create a new VM with a smaller disk and move the data. However, this approach has two caveats: it requires copying data, which can take…