I'm using Xubuntu 13.04 from live usb.
I know that in order to be able to keep files/settings/etc after restart, USB live disk should be created with some storage reserved.
However since I got this USB from a friend who created installation, I don't know if he reserved any space, and so my questions are:
- How can I find out amount of space reserved (if any)?
- If no space is reserved, can I manually chose USB/HDD location to store my settings in order to be able to boot into them the next time I log on?
I'm currently running a very long session and it would help me if I could somehow be able to store my settings (firefox, apt-gets, xrandr screen conf. … ) to not have to do it again after I reboot.
Thanks,
IR
Best Answer
If your settings and files are not saved when you reboot, you do not have persistence enabled.
You can either make a new Flash drive. This may be easiest as there are graphical tools to do this for you ("install" the iso to the flash drive and enable persistence).
See: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LiveUsbPendrivePersistent#Live_USB_creator_.28GUI-based.29
Alternately you can manually enable persistence. You can do this either by making a file or partition named "casper-rw". I think making a file would be easiest.
First, mount the flash drive at say /mnt
then make a file, change the count to increase the size:
Then reboot, at the boot screen add the work "persistent" to the boot options.
See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD/Persistence#Using_a_Loopback_File for details.