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    Installing Kali Linux- Attempting to create persistence on Live USB following Docs returning error

    Hello. I am attempting to create persistence on my USB drive. It has 64 GB of space and the only thing on it is Kali (flashed using Etcher).
    I have followed steps 1 and 2 on https://www.kali.org/docs/usb/kali-l...b-persistence/, however, when trying to do step 3, I am returned the following:
    kali@kali:~$ sudo su
    root@kali:/home/kali# mkfs.ext3 -L persistence /dev/sdb3
    mke2fs 1.45.6 (20-Mar-2020)/dev/sdb3: Not enough space to build proposed filesystem while setting up superblockroot@kali:/home/kali#
    I don't understand how there is not enough space to build it, as doing fdisk -l tells me this:
    Disk /dev/sdb: 58.61 GiB, 62914560000 bytes, 122880000 sectors
    Disk model: USB Flash Drive
    Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
    Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
    I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
    Disklabel type: dos
    Disk identifier: 0xfb0b3988
    It has 58.61 GiB free. Is that not enough space?

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    I had the same error

    Quote Originally Posted by candy View Post
    Hello. I am attempting to create persistence on my USB drive. It has 64 GB of space and the only thing on it is Kali (flashed using Etcher).
    I have followed steps 1 and 2 on https://www.kali.org/docs/usb/kali-l...b-persistence/, however, when trying to do step 3, I am returned the following:
    kali@kali:~$ sudo su
    root@kali:/home/kali# mkfs.ext3 -L persistence /dev/sdb3
    mke2fs 1.45.6 (20-Mar-2020)/dev/sdb3: Not enough space to build proposed filesystem while setting up superblockroot@kali:/home/kali#
    I don't understand how there is not enough space to build it, as doing fdisk -l tells me this:
    Disk /dev/sdb: 58.61 GiB, 62914560000 bytes, 122880000 sectors
    Disk model: USB Flash Drive
    Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
    Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
    I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
    Disklabel type: dos
    Disk identifier: 0xfb0b3988
    It has 58.61 GiB free. Is that not enough space?
    i had the same error too, i used fdisk -l and saw that it had like 35 kb of space
    i couldnt figure out how to fix it through the terminal commands and when i created additional partitions they were the right size.
    but i did fix it by flashing the usb with rufus, which gives you an option in the flasher to begin with persistent mode.

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