Live USB flash drive with a persistent user home directory

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I want to be able to create a Live USB flash drive that I can run Ubuntu/Xubuntu on and be able to keep my configs intact. And maybe install some extra stuff.

Tried using the USB flash drive creator with the persistent storage. When booted into I would test by creating a random file in home Dir, reboot back into stick and see if there.

Do far it hasn’t worked.

beeryardtech

Posted 2015-03-18T23:34:01.007

Reputation: 131

Question was closed 2015-04-02T12:55:51.367

From @PandaLion98: Try this. Maybe the USB live OS creator has some bugs. This explains how to do it manually: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD/Persistence

– fixer1234 – 2015-03-19T03:00:25.697

Which release of ubuntu? unetbootin might work, but I want to test before I answer. – Journeyman Geek – 2015-03-19T06:45:00.403

Ubuntu 14.04. I tried unetbootin with the same result. From the link provided, I saw mention to setting boot option to "persistent". I am going to try that. – beeryardtech – 2015-03-19T12:21:33.713

Answers

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You need to set the persistent boot option. With that you can edit the disk and things worked.

Steps:

  • Create the USB using USB disk creator
  • Boot into live USB
  • as booting hit F6 for more options and type in "persistent" before the double dashes.

beeryardtech

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