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#Making Persistent Live USBs is Harder Than it Should Be 9/14/2016

What used to be easy with Ubuntu's Starup Disk Creator (usb-creator-common + usb-creator-gtk) is now a lot harder than it should be on UEFI systems. Some version before v0.2.66 have a bug that allows you to specify live usb persistence, however it doesn't actually work. Versions > 0.3 have removed this functionality completely (wtf!).

An alternative that worked for me was using mkusb from an installed Ubuntu distro (I could not get this to work creating live USBs from live USBs).

Steps on Ubuntu 16.06 include:

sudo apt-add-repository universe
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mkusb/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mkusb
sudo -H /usr/sbin/mkusb path/to/iso p # p specifies persistence

Then follow onscreen instructions. Another solution that was mentioned on forums includes unetbootin.

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