kali 1.07 usb persistence

[psykopanther]

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

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:

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

[psykopanther]

never mind. i got it going :P

used the how to guide in the community forum.

[James]

never mind. i got it going :P

used the how to guide in the community forum.

Great, glad you managed to get it working. I'm having exactly the same problem. I have a 26GB persistence partition with ext2 format. The persistence.conf file is there OK but doesn't seem to do anything. I don't really understand how persistence is supposed to work. I expected to see a copy of the file system in there which would update the default file system on the next boot, so that all setting changes were preserved.

What's the answer, and what specific post in the 'how to' forum unlocked the puzzle for you?

[enclave]

never mind. i got it going :P

used the how to guide in the community forum.

hi fella. i am confused at persistence guide. i have readed the article but i didn't know the "dd method" like any others. i can make my usb's storage area as persistence but can't on boot side. can you help me with step by step?

[burnface]

never mind. i got it going :P

used the how to guide in the community forum.

Care to explain what you did differently to fix your issues?