kali 1.07 usb persistence
trying to do the persistence with the latest kali. I have a san disk 32b cruzer (these things are slow btw). anyways, i did the command
Code:
dd if=kali-linux-1.0.7-amd64.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=1M
which installed kali fine.
I used gparted to create a ext4 partition with the label "persistence" which worked fine. on a ball arent I?
made a config with the persistence.conf info like so:
Code:
size=26.40gb
read bytes _ < <(du -bcm kali-linux-1.0.7-amd64.iso |tail -1); echo $bytes
parted /dev/sdb mkpart primary $bytes $size
mkfs.ext4 -L persistence /dev/sdb2
e2label /dev/sdb2 persistence
mkdir -p /mnt/my_usb
mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt/my_usb
echo "/ union" > /mnt/my_usb/persistence.conf
umount /dev/sdb2
saved config on the partition i just created labeled "persistence"
snatched the drive out and slapped it in the ol' ladies junk laptop (my inverter on my screen just went out).
booted with non exncrypted persistence option. booted well. i was smiling.
now, my questions start here. The persistence partition is mounted and shows on the desktop. i assume its suppose to? I see that the root home folder only has 1gb free.
what i am gathering is the partition is there to manually save whatever files you want to that partition. fine, whatever. But, to test and make sure all is well with saving my settings, i fire up iceweasel,
set the option to open last tabs, go to some random site, and close iceweasel. reopen iceweasel and it goes back to whatever random site it was at. like its suppose to.
restart kali OS, booted into non encrypted persistence, and nothing i did was saved :( is this how it is suppose to be? will i be able to handle updating and configuring kali? seems that 1gb free space on the sdb1 partition could get
crowded fast in a short amount of time, or if it goes very long without updating and needs a large update space.
just curious if i screwed up or this is how it is. thanks for any input
p.s. first post ! glad to be here and hope to pick up things fast and be a active member
