Trouble With Persistence After Making a USB Live Thumb Drive Using Pendrivelinux

I created a bootable Ubuntu on my 32GB thumb drive (on a NTFS partition) and I selected a persistence of 4GB.

I've noticed that when I reboot from the initial booting off of the USB thumb drive, nothing is preserved. No apps that were installed nor saved bookmarks.

Is there a way for me to manually force persistence?

Solution 1:

Be sure you have and always select "Persistent" option after booting from usb - if you do not see this option the usb has no persistence: it happened to me often for some reason. And to be sure that it works, I use, beside FAT32 (as stated in the other answer) a program called LiveUSB Install - here.

It provides a clear and nice interface for selecting the "persistent" boot (cannot give a screenshot of that) - it should be the second in the list after booting from live usb.

Solution 2:

1. List of "Related" questions on the right column might be helpful in solving your problem (e.g. making sure you have the boot option "persistent" in the configuration file)
2. Instead of NTFS, FAT32 format might be more problem-free for Ubuntu live USB with persistence.
3. Trying the Linux utility MultiSystem might work better in creating Ubuntu live USB with persistence: http://liveusb.info/dotclear/index.php?pages/install