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Post by completelyhatstand on Jun 13, 2009 10:06:06 GMT
I have successfully made a 2 Gb USB flashdrive boot in the past with persistence, and all worked fine. However, I have now bought a branny new 8Gb flashdrive. Mint will install on it, but persistence will not work and I cannot reserve extra room for any files. I don't think I'm doing anything differently, has anyone had this problem before?
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Post by completelyhatstand on Jun 13, 2009 10:26:37 GMT
As an after thought! The only thing I can think of that may have been different during the installs is that I may have been logged in as root the first time. Although permissions were given both times.
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Post by mikkh on Jun 13, 2009 10:38:02 GMT
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Post by mikkh on Jun 13, 2009 10:39:12 GMT
.... and yes it's best to be 'root' if you can
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Post by completelyhatstand on Jun 17, 2009 15:48:05 GMT
Things are working, just. The fat32 file system cannot support anything over 4Gb, so naturally reasoned that by creating two 4Gb partitions on an 8Gb flash drive would be fine. In reality, I had to crate a 2Gb partition where Linux lives, and a 6Gb partition for my stuff. It seems that if you max out the reserved space on the installer at anything over 2ish Gb things begin to go south. All works now, including persistence.
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