How to Add a Persistent Partition to Debian 9.8 Live, Part 4
In this part of the tutorial, I begin preparing the thumb drive, formatting it and installing the Debian 9.8 Live OS. I then partition the drive. In the next part, I will format the persistent partition for the Ext4 file system, and add the necessary configuration file.
Here are a few disclaimers:
1. My tutorial is in no way supported by the Debian Project, and I have no contact with them at this time.
2. The Linux file system driver that I used for Windows, called Ext2Fsd, was still in Beta at the time that I used it, and I had a number of technical problems as a result. These were the two specific problems that I observed:
1. After the use of Linux drives, my computer refused to shut down, and had to be forced.
2. Following the reboot, I found that some applications, including Open Broadcaster, had had their preferences deleted.
3. Also following the reboot, I found that the videos I had taken with Open Broadcaster were corrupted, with some of them being unplayable.
In summary: Be careful with Ext2Fsd, as it appears to still have a lot of bugs. Hopefully it will be improved in the future. In the meantime, I would recommend uninstalling it when you're not using it. For that matter: "Use at your own risk."
3. This tutorial specifically concerns Debian 9.8. This is the whole point, as tutorials already exist for how to build persistent partitions in earlier versions.