Making a Kali Live USB Persistent using GParted or terminal

[scorpius]

Those partitions still do not look right. Are you sure your usb drive is around 29GB? Make sure you don't have other usb drives plugged in. If you do, then it might be sdc or sdd or even sdf.

If you can boot kali from that usb, then simply:
1. use gparted to add an ext3 partition named persistence.
2. make sure you have a persistence.conf file on that partition.
3. boot from the usb and select the persistence option at the boot menu.

[ByteMe]

Fixed it, I think. That was a painful experience!

For those wondering, I used rEFInd to boot it, and imaged Kali using the terminal commands rather than using Mac Linux USB Loader. Pro tip - just use rEFInd installed from Recovery Mode and not Mac Linux USB Loader, because it made my partitions super weird and made it so Kali wouldn't show the boot menu.