Pi Pixel partition help

jminmon1 · 01-30-2018, 04:26 PM

I am trying out pi pixel os using on a 32gb memory stick. I am using a windows laptop and I am booting directly off the memory stick. On the the boot up there are are several options to choose from. The first option is boot with persistence. My understanding this is where I could use the remaining space on my memory stick as a mini hard disk? If so how do I make that happen? Do I need to partition the memory stick, and how do i do that from pi pixel? Thanks for any help.

michaelk · 01-30-2018, 05:03 PM

Welcome to LinuxQuestions.

I have been wanting to try running PIXEL on the Pi for awhile... I found the following link that details how to create persistence. To summarize the article.

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Download the Pixel x86 OS iso image.
Flash the iso image to your SD card or USB flash disk (I used etcher for flashing, which worked pretty well)
Boot with the newly created live Pixel system and install gparted by
apt-get update
apt-get install gparted
Start gparted and create a second partition on your USB stick or SD card that contains the rest of your storage. Name/label the second partition ‘persistence’ and select an ext4 file system type.
Mount the newly created second partition and create a file ‘persistence.conf’ with content ‘/ union’ directly in its root directly.
sudo bash
mkdir /mnt/usb
mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt/usb (please first check with df if /dev/sdb2 is really the name of your second USB partition)
echo “/ union” > /mnt/usb/persistence.conf
Thats it, reboot and you are fine!

http://www.smartlab.at/articles/pixe...h-persistence/

ondoho · 01-31-2018, 02:03 AM

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Originally Posted by jminmon1

The first option is boot with persistence. (...) how do I make that happen?

i think you simply make that choice, and the installer will make it so.