Question about partitioning on 3 NVMe
My first NVMe is only 513GB and is used for heavy R/W, /tmp, swap, /VAR,
2nd NVMe 2To is for Qubes
3rd NVMe 2To is for Qubes
Q: How to I set up these two so as to have a single LVM ? is it risky in anyway to have an LVM spread over two disks ?
Or should I set it like:
NVMe1 = /root + common qubes (basic ones, Debian, Fedora)
NVMe2 = “Data” where I set extra qubes, like other distros
Then how ?
You can configure the disks to be in the same LVM or you can configure them as separate storages:
You can read how to configure the disks to be in the same LVM in some Fedora guides, it’ll be the same for Qubes OS installer.
No sure which way is better.
Thks a lot for this !
What I’m concerned about, afraid about, is that … I break things. Allways did, and most likely allways will, that’s why I’ve always had separate partition (whichever OS) to keep my data, config and such (besides the usual swap, tmp, etc …)
So having everything inside a single LVM, is like … scary to me.
Someone here ssuggested about the imaging capability of dom0, so when you reinstall you can retrieve your previous set-up, but if everything is in the same LVM, that means a 4To backup (with all 6 or 8 qubes) and if one disk fail then the LVM will be broken and won’t run on a single disk (like RAID, right ?)
I know I’m tackling a way-bigger-than-me task here, and my fears are mostly because I lake the knowledge to fix things I break (unless obvious/easy) I usually just reinstall … and don’t want to reinstall every single qubes, besides the Fedora and Debian: Win10, Suse, Kali, Endless, etc …
Any suggestion to help my autistic brain seeing some light ?
right, so if I understood well, I could install Qubes on, say, a 200Gb partition on NVMe1, and then, once inside, I go through dom0 and create a (1800Gb-200Gb = 1600GB) pool and another 1800Pool on NVMe2, and have them joined to dom0,
So I would be able to create qubes on both, and they will remain if… (when, cause I’m sure I will) I have to reinstall Qubes on the first partition
Not sure if that would make 3 LVM, or one LVM with 3 partitions … I have to read further