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mount /home as /home/ubuntu in live USB ubuntu

rated 0 times [ 3] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 1932 / 2 Years ago, thu, august 25, 2022, 11:56:54

I have created a customised version of Ubuntu (basically I just installed the programs that I want), using UCK, to install on a pendrive and carry with me while travelling and boot on whatever computer is available.

What I want is to have a "home" folder on the pendrive and then mount it as /home/ubuntu in the live system.
That way, I can easily access my files from other systems as well as the pendrive, and the settings for the screen, etc will be reset every time I boot and won't cause problems when I use it on multiple machines.

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answered 2 Years ago wenceslockro · Accepted Answer

The easiest method is to use persistence. Make a file called home-rw

# this will make a 1 Gb file for storage, increase / decrease the count as needed

dd if=/dev/zero of=./home-rw bs=1M count=1000

Make a file system on the file

mkfs.ext4 home-rw



mke2fs 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010)

home-rw is not a block special device.



# Answer ‘yes’ here



Proceed anyway? (y,n) y

Remove the reserved blocks

tune2fs -m 0 -L home-rw home-rw

When you boot your pendrive , hit the tab key to edit your boot options, and add persistent to the boot options.

You can edit /isolinux/txt.cfg (I think that is the file) to add a persistent option, looks like this:

boot splash