Feature #16672

Decide size of Persistent partition

Added by BlueSky 2019-04-24 18:01:53 . Updated 2019-05-01 18:42:13 .

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It would be great to be able to decide the size of the Persistent partition when creating it, so we could leave room for more partitions on the same pendrive or SD card, encrypted with different passphrases, that we might decide to only access for specific needs (I’m seeing pendrive-like USB adapters containing micro SD cards of 64 up to 1024 GB).

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#1 Updated by sajolida 2019-05-01 11:17:16

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Hi BlueSky, thanks for the suggestion.

We don’t want to encourage people to use their Tails USB stick for anything else than Tails, for example by plugging it in another operating system that might compromise it. That’s why, for example, the USB stick doesn’t show up if you plug it in Windows. Your proposal makes this harder to communicate to users.

I also don’t want to make the process of creating the Persistence more complex to the risk of confusing users more. If people want different encrypted volumes with different passphrases and for different needs, they should put this on a separate USB stick.

#2 Updated by BlueSky 2019-05-01 18:42:13

sajolida wrote:
> Hi BlueSky, thanks for the suggestion.
>
> We don’t want to encourage people to use their Tails USB stick for anything else than Tails, for example by plugging it in another operating system that might compromise it. That’s why, for example, the USB stick doesn’t show up if you plug it in Windows. Your proposal makes this harder to communicate to users.
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> I also don’t want to make the process of creating the Persistence more complex to the risk of confusing users more. If people want different encrypted volumes with different passphrases and for different needs, they should put this on a separate USB stick.

Sure I understand, I think it’s a good choice, in the meantime I’ve decided myself to stay with Tails on relatively small USB sticks, e.g. 16 GB, and keep other stuff on separate storage devices (although I’ve come to that stance for other considerations, mainly less data to backup/move in case some Tails scheme - or its size - changes to a point where we need to repartirtion the USB stick to be able to upgrade to a newer Tails version).

Thank you sajolida.