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Create a Larger than 4GB Casper

Partition
The following tutorial will show you one way
to create a casper-rw partition on your USB
flash drive. The benefit of using a casper-rw
partition as opposed to a casper-rw block file
is that you can expand your persistent storage
beyond 4GB. This is very useful if you have a
flash drive that is 8GB or larger and you want
to use all of it's remaining space for
persistent storage. The drawback is that
Windows will not see the secondary casper-rw
partition (in Windows, your drive will appear
to be smaller than it is).

This tutorial assumes that you have already

created a bootable USB Flash Drive that
contains Ubuntu or an Ubuntu based Live
Distro like Xubuntu, Kubuntu, Linux Mint, Crunchbang, etc. You should delete any
existing casper-rw file from the drive to free up all available space before proceeding.

1. Restart your Computer, booting from an Ubuntu Live CD

2. Once booted, insert the Flash Drive containing your Ubuntu based Live Distro
3. Navigate to System > Administration > GParted
4. select your USB device from the drop-down
Select the partition and then right click and select Unmount

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5. Right mouse click again and select Resize/Move

6. Now drag the size down to what you want to limit for the first partition

7. Now select the "unallocated entry"

Right mouse click and select New

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8. From the Create New Partition Window that appears, type casper-rw for the label
and then click Add

9. Now click the Checkmark to Apply all operations

10. Once the pending operations have completed, simply close the Window and restart
Booting from your Flash Drive

If all went well, you should now be running your Ubuntu or Ubuntu based Live Distro
from your Flash Drive that now uses a second ext2 partition for storing your changes.

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