I spent an entire day trying to figure out why my USB ubuntu installation was not being persistent. Yes, I did check the persistence option and assigned a file size for it during installation. I've tried installing it with Pendrive's Universal Installer and LiveUSBCreator's installer. Both have failed so far. My test to see if persistence was working was that I would boot into it (Select I want to try ubuntu on the boot menu for the usb) and create a file on the desktop using touch Testfile. Then I would reboot to see if the file was still there. But it always disappears at reboot. I even tried installing some programs and they would be gone too. I've tried Ubuntu 12.04 and Ubuntu 11.10. If I selected persistence at install, can anyone tell me why this isn't working? Bad Ubuntu version? (I've tried two USB flash drives so no problem there.)
How to install persistent ubuntu 12.04 on USB drive?
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