Let’s see how much we have in common with our backpack inventories.

  • I'm back on my BS 🤪OPMEnglish
    5•4 months ago

    32G USB drive: 8G partition with bootable Linux Mint (can you guess what I do for a living?) The rest is FAT32 storage

    That you specified the partitioning is my favorite part 😆

    • @[email protected]English
      2•4 months ago

      I could write a similar list about the flash drives I use at work or at home.

      32G stick mentioned above

      32G “Imaging” USB stick

      • 400M partition with a customized bootable Clonezilla:
        • One boot entry that loads the OS to RAM, brings up an ethernet interface with DHCP, and mounts a Samba share to /home/partimag
        • One that loads the OS and brings up a bash CLI (Clonezilla is basically Debian with extras)
        • One that loads the OS and mounts:
      • A second FAT32 partition that contains:
        • A Debian 11 image
        • A Linux Mint image
        • A customized Ubuntu 22.04 VirtualBox OVA image

       

      2G “iHaxit” USB stick with a read-only switch

      • MAS
      • tron
      • Utilities that Windows often marks as malware and tries to delete

       

      128G “Rescue”

      • Bootable Windows recovery disk
      • Plenty of space to save important documents before the subject computer is nuked

       

      32G “DO NOT USE” stick that I nuke and reformat for whatever purpose I need (not to be used for storage)

      …plus a lot of optical disks with various Windows installers.

      • @[email protected]English
        6•4 months ago

        Check out Ventoy, it’s a utility for booting any disk image fron USB storage and might help reduce the number of drives you need to carry. Also, it supports data persistence if you want a portable live OS. =D