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Author: Dennis Kibbe
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Subject: Re: creating a persistant pendrive image from the command line
Michael Havens <> writes:

> in my research to create a bootable pendrive I found:
>
> sudo dd if=<linux image> of=/dev/<usbdrive>
>
> my question is what do I need to add to the command to make a persistant
> pendrive?
> :-)~MIKE~(-:


Mike,

Depending on the distro you may find CLI tools designed to do that.
Check this article on the Fedora Wiki.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB

This also looked useful. Especially the ability to create an encrypted
persistent overlay.

http://www.livecd.ethz.ch/usbdisk.html

dennisk

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