Not just regular live bootable drives, Mkusb can also create persistent storage live USBs as well. It uses dd tool under the hood to create boot drives. Mkusb is a graphical utility to make bootable drives on Ubuntu Linux. I successfully created a persistent live USB drive with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS desktop. I tested this guide on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS desktop. You can keep it with you all the time, plug it on any system and start using it the OS anywhere. To put this in simple words, the persistent storage Live USB will act like a portable computer. You can install applications, save files an folders, customize the system as you wish etc.Īll the changes you made in the live system will remain intact even after you reboot or shutdown it. You can use the persistent live USB as the way you use the regular Laptop/Desktop system. What if you want to make all changes remain intact even after rebooted the system? That's what we are going to do now using Mkusb bootable creation tool. However once you reboot the system, all of the said changes will be lost. When you try the Live USB, you can do all sort of things, such as installing applications, downloading files, playing media, creating files and folders, customizing it as per your liking and a lot more. We can also use the live cd for troubleshooting purposes as well.

Using the live bootable medium, we can test the Linux distributions without having to install them on the hard drive. If you don't want to use these third-party tools, there is a built-in command line tool called dd (Data Duplicator) available to create a bootable USB drives.

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