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# Mount a VM's private storage in another VM
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Useful for data recovery. As per [this Reddit post](https://www.reddit.com/r/Qubes/comments/chgb3h/is_it_possible_to_access_files_inside_a_vm/f8ur03m/):
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```
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[dom0] sudo lvcreate --size 1G --snapshot --name tempsnap /dev/mapper/qubes_dom0-vm--untrusted--private
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[dom0] readlink /dev/mapper/qubes_dom0-tempsnap
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[dom0] qvm-start --hddisk dom0:/dev/[from previous command] viewervm
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(Attaching to a running viewervm was not possible)
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[viewervm] mkdir -v /tmp/stuff
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[viewervm] sudo mount /dev/xvdi /tmp/stuff
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```
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If the original VM has more than one partition, have to pick the right one, such as xvdi1 or xvdi2, etcetera.
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Could be unmounted, but no commands or options we tried allowed to detach the viewervm until it was stopped. (qvm-block still seems bugged)
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Couldn't lvremove until the machine was restarted.
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