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Questions tagged [persistence]

For questions relating to persistent storage, typically on a live usb or live cd.

Questions about how to add persistence, modify persistence, or troubleshoot persistent storage. Persistent storage is storage in a bootable device (usb or CD typically) that stores changes to the operating system in the bootable device.

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How long will an unused hard drive store its memory?

Possible Duplicate: How much time until an unused hard drive loses its data? I have a broken laptop, and it's the motherboards fault that it can't turn its power on. The laptop has been stored for almost 2 years now and I'm about to get its hard…
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Persisting right click menu highlight

I used to have this problem sometimes in Vista, but now I'm using Windows 7 (it was a clean install, reformatted hard drive) I'm disappointed that it's happening again. Basically what happens is sometimes when I right click on something and click an…
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Permanently swap Powerpoint presenter view and slide show

I have a dual monitor setup where my main monitor is monitor #2. Whenever I start a Powerpoint slideshow, the slideshow itself appears on monitor #1, and on monitor #2 I get a "presenter view". I can use the top-bar UI to switch between the two…
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How to flush changes back to live usb when booting into ram with persistence?

I've got a bootable usb drive with a live linux distro on it. We set it up to support persistence, so normally the changes make are kept between reboots. Booting into ram seems to make linux a lot faster than normal, which makes it a convenient way…
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Adding persistence to multiboot USB made with YUMI

I recently made a multiboot USB with YUMI. I've only put the 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Kali on it so I can use the stick on systems that run either a 32 bit or 64 bit OS. I actually have a macbook pro that has a 64 bit processor and an Acer…
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How to make persistent shortcuts to windows in KDE4?

This answer Find and raise a window in KDE4 with shortcut tells how to set a keyboard shortcut which activates a particular windows. It works wonderfully. But if I close the application and restart it, the shortcut resets. Is there a way to make it…
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casper-rw persistence on FAT32 partition

Is there any way to run Ubuntu from USB stick with a FAT32 casper-rw persistence partition? If I use an Ext2 casper-rw partition everything works fine. However, if I switch to FAT32, the system gives the following error during boot: (initramfs) aufs…
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SSH keys deleted from home folder after reboot

First time poster and massive unix/linux novice here. I have a Western Digital My Cloud NAS, which runs (I believe) some version of Debian. I've got a remote backup account with Rsync.net, and want to run daily backups using rsync from the NAS to…
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OS State persistence on power loss?

Is there a way to use persistent memory instead of the volatile ram so that the state is resumed on a power loss without resorting to a UPS? Alternatively, can RAM be battery backed so that you don't lose state on power loss? I know there would be…
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Mount SMB/AFP share on network reconnect

There's a myriad of possibilities for mounting shares upon Login within OSX. I'm after having it done when a network connection is restored. Ideally: Mount the share connection lost connection re-gained Mount the share again (if possible),…
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Are there tools to reduce or eliminate LCD Image Persistence?

As with the asker of this question I have a monitor which suffers from terrible LCD Image Persistence problems. After a few hours, static elements on screen start to persist and in some areas of the screen (particularly at the top, where VMware…
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How to properly create a Parrot OS 4.10 (amd64) USB flash drive with persistence from Windows 7?

I am trying to add a persistence live bootable Parrot OS 4.10 amd64 on an 8GB USB (SanDisk Cruzer Blade USB 2.0) from Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit. No matter whatever method I’ve tried, I just get stuck with a live USB without persistence. And here’s…
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Ubuntu 19.04 Live USB Not Persistant

I have been trying to create a persistent Ubuntu Live USB. I was successfully able to create a Bootable drive, but the problem is that it's not persistent. I have tried a lot of Tutorials online, checked the Ubuntu Forums but no luck! I have also…
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Redis rdb persistence quite slow

My two nodes in a Redis cluster have quite different persistence performance. The master node is always much faster than the slave one when saving data to disk. Here is the persistence info for master： [fred@redis_master temp]$ redis-cli -h…
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kali linux not asking password to login ( in persistence using USB)

Iam using kali using persistence usb. Everytime I open my system using kali persistence , it doesn't ask for password for the first time (i.e gives access to the root user without any authentication), but it does asks for password when i lock the…
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