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

  • @rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2•9 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.

    • knightly the SneptaurEnglish
      6•9 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