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I put the TAILS ISO on a 32GB USB stick with 'dd' (Didn't have a smaller one.)

diskutil GUI says the resulting partition is one GB but df in the terminal says it is four GB. diskutil does show the free space as 32GB.

I want to make the free space into a usable (persistent) partition, but if I select format in diskutil, it appears to want to repartition the whole stick--which as I understand, would trash the boot partition.

I would also like that partition to be ExFAT or any other format that both Mac and Windows 7 can read and write.

How should I proceed?

WGroleau
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Another way to go is using Yumi; Yumi will assist you in downloading and installing many USB-bootable distros of Linux, including TAILS. There are also quite a few utilities that you can install: AV/malware cleaners, partitioning tools and rescue disks.

The rest of the USB drive is available for whatever files you need to store on it.

Jens Kubieziel
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banga
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  1. Install and open tails,
  2. Partition using the Disk-utility of Tails, leaving some space for the Persistance Volume.
  3. After that operation install the Persistance volume on the remaining space.
jan van ibiz
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You must have 2 partitions in your USB so that you can install the OS in one partition and use the other one to hold your data.

The easiest way is to achieve this is to:

  1. Partition the drive (using GParted or some other tools) in 2 partitions with one (for eg: dev/sdb1) partition to hold your operating system, and another partition to hold your data.

  2. Format the partitions accordingly (ext4 for Tails and exFAT for data) using any tool of your choice (I prefer GParted)

  3. Install Tails into one partition (eg:/dev/sdb) using UNetbootin or dd

Ron
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Easy way I found to get things working was create a Tails OS DVD. Boot from DVD, plug in 32gig flash drive. Use program in tails to clone/install tails onto flash drive. Boot from flash drive. Create persistence partition using persistence installer in tails once booted from flash drive. You could do this replacing the DVD with another flash drive if you have one. I felt like this method was pretty easy and fool proof. It requires no manual partitioning and is all done through programs that are built into tails os.

can't make comments yet due to rep but I'm pretty sure if you have 2 USB's you can replace the DVD with USB1 and then install onto USB2, in case you have an extra USB and don't want to waste a DVD.

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Only solution that worked for me was using command prompt (admin) with following commands in order:

  1. type diskpart
  2. select your disk number (e.g. "select disk 1" or "select disk 2" without the "") of the usb you want to flash
  3. type clean

Use Etcher to flash tails to the USB.

once finished, go to disk management and create a new partition on the USB voila, 2 partitions and tails installed on one of them.

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