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What's on your "Everyday Carry" USB stick? (lemmy.mtate.me.uk)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Just picked up a 128GB USB A/C stick that can go on my keyring. What are some things I should put on it to have access to at all times?

I already have self hosted services accessible over my VPN, so this would be for when I can't access that.

I'm thinking at least Ventoy and some common ISOs, then I'm not sure what else.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

ventoy with some live image, gparted, and arch iso

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Sorry for the noob question.

I know Gparted helps format disks and stuff, but what can you do with it on a USB stick? Is it to format and partition other computers you come across? And how did you get Gparted on the stick itself?

Thanks

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

just for when i screw up the partitions on my computers

you can get a live iso image with gparted :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Great! Thank you 🙌