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What's on your "Everyday Carry" USB stick?

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.

Reddfugee42 ,

If it’s anything like mine, this is a great idea that’s going to get smashed to fuck

dinckelman ,

I got two identical 64gb sticks. One’s for a Ventoy setup with a bunch of different ISOs, in case anything has to be done and/or recovered. The other just has occasional random files i might need

boredsquirrel ,
@boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net avatar

I had one:

  1. Live OS, Fedora KDE or something
  2. 5GB FAT32 for printers and windows, lol
  3. X GB encrypted EXT4, F2FS or BTRFS for storage
Jolteon ,

I have a copy of MX Linux installed, as well as encrypted copies of all my most important data and a few commonly used portable utilities for windows and Linux. It’s mostly just an emergency backup, but I have used the other parts before, just very rarely.

monovergent ,

A metal 128 GB USB on my keychain next to the U2F key

16 GB Ventoy partition with:

  • Clonezilla (‘deploying’ my system image and backups)
  • Mint Debian Edition (everything needed to test and recover my Debian systems)
  • Debian netinstall
  • Various manuals and reference documents
  • Portable CrystalDiskInfo and VeraCrypt for Windows
  • Dumping grounds for files that I intended to transfer between machines, particularly the XP retro gaming rig
  • An optimistic IF-FOUND.TXT
  • KeePass
  • Previously Windows, until once upon a time, I booted into WinRE via Ventoy, got confused between X:, C:, and whatever else, and proceeded to nuke my USB instead of another disk. The Windows installer lived on its own USB happily ever after.

And a LUKS encrypted partition in the remaining space with more documents and a backup of almost all of my photos.

Rossphorus ,

I have three partitions: First one is Ventoy with a couple of distros per architecture. Partition two is a standard exfat partition for files. Partition three is a small fat16 partition, since there’s always that one device someone has (oscilloscope, 3D printer, UEFI/BIOS, etc.) that only supports very simple file systems. I’ve had to use the fat16 partition more than a couple of times and I don’t even work with legacy hardware.

nichtburningturtle ,
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I’ve got 3 usb’s on my keychain. One for ventoi, one for tails and one for random storage.

JackbyDev ,

I’ve got a USB stick on my keys but I don’t remember what’s on it because I’ve never used it lmao.

Grimpen ,

I’ve got a 15 year old SD/USB combo card on my keychain. I plugged it into a TV around 6-7 years ago because there were a couple of kids movies on there.

I also know I have some Portable apps on there, but probably a little out of date

Cyv_ ,

Yeah main thing is Ventoy and images for windows 10 and 11. I also have some basic tools, and some portable versions of some games I like (OoT, Warcraft 3, etc).

Asudox ,
@Asudox@lemmy.world avatar

Some useful files I might need someday (of course encrypted), bootable linux rescue distro and of course tailsos just in case.

ProgrammingSocks ,

Pretty boring. School textbooks and portableapps with a few of my essentials - Firefox, vim, GIMP, and some others I’m forgetting right now.

nobleshift ,
@nobleshift@lemmy.world avatar

Deniable Encryption

BigMikeInAustin ,

Sorry about the negativity from so many people.

You do what works for you.

rotopenguin ,
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I have a Debian 12 install on a 5GB partition (btrfs compression is magic), and the rest is exfat. It has rEFInd as the bootloader, should be pretty good at detecting and running other OSes with bootloader problems.

Ooops , (edited )
@Ooops@feddit.org avatar

Ventoy and…

Clonezilla, (custom) ArchISO, Tails

the stuff you might need to safe other people’s PCs sigh …

HBCD_PE, Windows 11

If I hadn’t included those in my ArchISO already I would probably add…

one of the usual Rescue ISOs, GParted Live.

Bonus points for Ventoy’s ISO partiiton doubling as simple storage.

PS: Thanks for the reminder to update some of them again.

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