From time to time I need to do maintenance on Linux computers that involves booting an OS other than the one installed on the machine. Currently I have 2 computers that need such attention.
In the past I've used Live bootable USB drives. They have a number of limitations including:
- they use Gnome. I'm a KDE guy.
- they lack many of the tools I need - gparted, etc.
- they don't support persistence, so every time I boot with them I'm running a script to get everything set up to where I was the last time I booted.
One can supposedly make Live USB images persistent, but 1) it didn't work when I tried it and 2) there are limitations, including that do a major upgrade to the Live installation. (ie, no dnf updates)
So... I'm thinking of installing Fedora35 for real on a USB drive and then using that for my maintenance work. Has anyone done this ? Tips ? Tricks ? Advice ?
I'm specifically wondering about setting up partitions on a USB device. Same as a SATA device ? Anything special about booting a USB device instead of a SATA or NVME device ?
Thanks.
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