I have a 128GB USB drive. I want to flash Manjaro GNOME ISO onto it while keeping all the remaining space for storage. I created a partition on the remaining free space, but when I launched Manjaro Live and clicked the partition in Files I got a message saying: Error mounting … /dev/sdb3 already …

This is how you do it [image] [root tip] [How To] Multi ISO USB with storage partition Tutorials ISO to USB no wasted space Difficulty: ★★☆☆☆ Original topic on the archived forum. My notes on ISO to USB no wasted space Manjaro ISO From time to time the questi…

It still won’t let me use the storage part when Manjaro Live is running so it’s not what I was looking for, thanks. Edit: BTW, is there a way to include my own files in the USB boot part? I was thinking about maybe including an image to install on the hard drive and this way I don’t really need the…

[image] yaron: Manjaro Live Burned onto the USB will never let you have a different partition that is independent because the USB will always be formatted. If you insist on booting live environment then use ventoy and then you only copy iso on it to boot it, and you can keep whatever other f…

@yaron What you want is something called persistent storage and a German usb distribution (Knoppix) provides just that. There are other distrubutions that provide it, see: persistent storage I haven’t looked more closely because, well I personally don’t think it’s a reliable solution but it does exi…

[image] yaron: It still won’t let me use the storage part when Manjaro Live is running so it’s not what I was looking for, thanks. When you use ventoy - you need to tell ventoy to leave untouched space. Then you will need to manually create a partition using the untouched space and format usi…

I would suggest to install Manjaro on USB driveinto dedicated partition with standard installer . It would let you to keep setting and files within Manjaro partition. Just don’t forget to place bootloader on USB drive during installation. The other part of USB could be formatted into some other fil…

[image] DavidWind: I have some problems with UEFI booting Strange. I had problems with legacy and solved it by activating UEFI. Your solution works, of course, but you install the OS on one computer and the idea of usb based OS is that you can use it in many different situations. [image] …

[image] jdeca57: Your solution works, of course, but you install the OS on one computer and the idea of usb based OS is that you can use it in many different situations. Actually I use such USB on three different computers (two laptops and one desktop) :slight_smile:

So the recommendation is to install Manjaro on a USB (instead of flashing the ISO)?

Well that works and if your hardware is similar then you can even use it on multiple computers. Of course the install iso takes more hardware and eventualities into account. It’s always difficult to find what the actual purpose is. Why would you want to do that? If you want to try out Gnome (see the…

Using USB for boot and storage

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This is how you do it