persistence live usb with fat data partition?

I have followed the directions to make a live cd with persistence and they work flawlessly! but i would like to mix it up a little.... I have a 64gb usb disk that i would like to create 3 partitions on....
1) Kali Live (≈3gb)
2) persistence (≈27gb)
3) fat32 storage drive (≈27gb)

Heres my problem. If I create the fat32 partition with gparted when I create the persistence partition it works for mac or linux but if i try to use the usb disc on a windows machine the fat32 partition "needs to be formatted". If I do that it wipes out the first partition (Kali Live). I could get this to work by doing a full install to the usb but I find a live disk runs faster even with persistence and if I ever screw something up I can just delete the files from the persistence partition and stat again.

if anyone knows how I can accomplish this I would love some help!

The 'needs to be formatted' is normal under windows. Actually after you install kali onto any disk, it will convert the drive partitions to its own format (ext4?) (Not sure about the persistence partition) However even if it stayed fat32 when you plug in your usb, windows will not see it because of the kali partition.

Now for a work around you can find some third party windows software to install that will "recognize a linux partition". You may have to mount the drive first in windows using said software.

i dont think you understand. its not an ext4 partition. partition 3 is a fat 32 partition formatted fat32 in kali. its like dual booting a computer when you install kali it wont change all your partitions to ext 4 and if you have a fat32 drive it will be read by all available operating systems. I have this working will a full install to the flash drive..... i would just like a live usb disc better.

Post the output of : fdisk -l
and ----> ls -la /dev/disk/by-id

Let's see what you have

here is the outputs:

root@kali:~# fdisk -l

WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.


Disk /dev/sda: 500.3 GB, 500277790720 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60821 cylinders, total 977105060 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd5f3663f

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 977105059 488552529+ ee GPT
Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary.

Disk /dev/sdb: 63.3 GB, 63250104320 bytes
151 heads, 32 sectors/track, 25566 cylinders, total 123535360 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x5a959214

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 64 4933471 2466704 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2 4933632 60229631 27648000 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3 60229632 123535359 31652864 b W95 FAT32
root@kali:~# ls -la /dev/disk/by-id
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 360 Nov 5 23:06 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 120 Nov 5 23:06 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Nov 5 23:07 ata-APPLE_SSD_SM512E_S118NYAD120961 -> ../../sda
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov 5 23:06 ata-APPLE_SSD_SM512E_S118NYAD120961-part1 -> ../../sda1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov 5 23:07 ata-APPLE_SSD_SM512E_S118NYAD120961-part2 -> ../../sda2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov 5 23:07 ata-APPLE_SSD_SM512E_S118NYAD120961-part3 -> ../../sda3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Nov 5 23:07 scsi-SATA_APPLE_SSD_SM512S118NYAD120961 -> ../../sda
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov 5 23:06 scsi-SATA_APPLE_SSD_SM512S118NYAD120961-part1 -> ../../sda1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov 5 23:07 scsi-SATA_APPLE_SSD_SM512S118NYAD120961-part2 -> ../../sda2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov 5 23:07 scsi-SATA_APPLE_SSD_SM512S118NYAD120961-part3 -> ../../sda3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Nov 5 23:07 usb-_Patriot_Memory_07073AE54FD76E61-0:0 -> ../../sdb
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov 5 23:06 usb-_Patriot_Memory_07073AE54FD76E61-0:0-part1 -> ../../sdb1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov 5 23:06 usb-_Patriot_Memory_07073AE54FD76E61-0:0-part2 -> ../../sdb2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov 5 23:07 usb-_Patriot_Memory_07073AE54FD76E61-0:0-part3 -> ../../sdb3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Nov 5 23:07 wwn-0x5002538043584d30 -> ../../sda
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov 5 23:06 wwn-0x5002538043584d30-part1 -> ../../sda1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov 5 23:07 wwn-0x5002538043584d30-part2 -> ../../sda2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov 5 23:07 wwn-0x5002538043584d30-part3 -> ../../sda3
root@kali:~#

I understand what you are trying to achieve, the issue is your partitions setup I believe. Right now you have Kali as your first partition, so when you plug in your drive, windows sees it as a partition it can't read thus asking to format the drive. In order to get Windows to see the windows friendly partition I believe the usb boot sector needs to know that its there.. Maybe you can show us what is on the boot sector?

dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=whatsinthisfile.txt bs=11 count=1


Here's a thread that someone came up with a solution to achieve what you are asking:
https://forums.kali.org/showthread.p...tion-windows-7

Here is an interesting article to look at:
http://www.rmprepusb.com/tutorials/multipartufd

@jjd: I have the same issue. Then I'm using bootice, and the problem is solved. You may check on my post here

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Originally Posted by jjd

I have followed the directions to make a live cd with persistence and they work flawlessly! but i would like to mix it up a little.... I have a 64gb usb disk that i would like to create 3 partitions on....
1) Kali Live (≈3gb)
2) persistence (≈27gb)
3) fat32 storage drive (≈27gb)

Heres my problem. If I create the fat32 partition with gparted when I create the persistence partition it works for mac or linux but if i try to use the usb disc on a windows machine the fat32 partition "needs to be formatted". If I do that it wipes out the first partition (Kali Live). I could get this to work by doing a full install to the usb but I find a live disk runs faster even with persistence and if I ever screw something up I can just delete the files from the persistence partition and stat again.

if anyone knows how I can accomplish this I would love some help!

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It all has to see with boot record in USB..All info about partitions in USB are contained in the boot record, created by kali linux install...So winbugs wont be able to read it, although it sees it, it has to wipe out all usb to CREATE a PARTITION TABLE, leaving the usb as merly a Storage device...

You might want to make winbugs to see partition using a Third party software to make winbugs be able to manage that 32bit FAT 32 partition in USB.