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Try out the 3 gig with persistence

http://u3.sandisk.com/launchpadremoval.htm

you'll need to run the above in Windows to remove U3 read only software if it is installed. before reformatting that Sandisk as Fat32 before using either of the above 2 links in Windows.

Read up on installing persistence

http://www.linuxliveusb.com/en/help/guide/step3

You will be limited on what changes you make to your install though with just 3gig. you will b e able to tell though when it is filling up with the

Code:

df -h

command in terminal in Linux or used gparted in Linux to see via a gui.

Code:

:~$ df -h

Filesystem                                              Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on

rootfs                                                  17G  4.7G  12G  29% /

udev                                                    242M    0  242M  0% /dev

tmpfs                                                    50M  788K  49M  2% /run

/dev/disk/by-uuid/8bdcb4fd-4a43-45e9-be6b-dd455f91e802  17G  4.7G  12G  29% /

tmpfs                                                  5.0M    0  5.0M  0% /run/lock

tmpfs                                                    99M  92K  99M  1% /tmp

tmpfs                                                    99M  500K  99M  1% /run/shm

/dev/sda1                                                11G  5.5G  4.1G  58% /mnt/sda1

---------- Post added 04-23-12 at 08:38 PM ----------

Try out the 3 gig with persistence

http://u3.sandisk.com/launchpadremoval.htm

you'll need to run the above in Windows to remove U3 read only software if it is installed. before reformatting that Sandisk as Fat32 before using either of the above 2 links in Windows.

Read up on installing persistence

http://www.linuxliveusb.com/en/help/guide/step3

You will be limited on what changes you make to your install though with just 3gig. you will b e able to tell though when it is filling up with the

Code:

df -h

command in terminal in Linux or used gparted in Linux to see via a gui.

Code:

:~$ df -h

Filesystem                                              Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on

rootfs                                                  17G  4.7G  12G  29% /

udev                                                    242M    0  242M  0% /dev

tmpfs                                                    50M  788K  49M  2% /run

/dev/disk/by-uuid/8bdcb4fd-4a43-45e9-be6b-dd455f91e802  17G  4.7G  12G  29% /

tmpfs                                                  5.0M    0  5.0M  0% /run/lock

tmpfs                                                    99M  92K  99M  1% /tmp

tmpfs                                                    99M  500K  99M  1% /run/shm

/dev/sda1                                                11G  5.5G  4.1G  58% /mnt/sda1