Live USB persistence not working...

[mrtippage]

I have install Kali 1.0.9a on a USB to be used as a Live USB with persistence. But, the persistence is'nt working. I have followed the official documentation to create the persistence.

Here's the persistence.conf file located in /dev/sdb3:

size=4gb
read bytes _ < <(du -bcm kali-linux-1.0.9a-amd64.iso |tail -1); echo $bytes
parted /dev/sdb mkpart primary $bytes $size
mkfs.ext3 -L persistence /dev/sdb3
e2label /dev/sdb3 persistence
mkdir -p /mnt/my_usb
mount /dev/sdb3 /mnt/my_usb
echo "/ union" > /mnt/my_usb/persistence.conf
umount /dev/sdb3

[muts]

Looks like you've completely foobared your setup as persistence.conf should definitely not look like that. I suggest you read the instructions again.