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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.

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).

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I also know I have some Portable apps on there, but probably a little out of date

rudyharrelson ,

lol, I feel you there. I got a ruggedized, waterproof USB stick about 6 years ago to keep on my keychain and I’ve used it maybe three times ever. Though I’ve also been working from home for the last 4+ years so, y’know, less opportunities to use it in general.

Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it, though.

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.

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.

null ,

How have I never thought of partitioning one large USB drive for multiple purposes…

rotopenguin ,
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Windows is not very pleasant about dealing with a removable drive with more than one partition.

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.

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.

boredsquirrel ,
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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
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

Reddfugee42 ,

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

fitjazz ,

Mine is mostly lighting console show files of various concerts/comedians/dance performances I have been the lighting designer for. I know my use case is different than most people’s, but hey, you asked.

WbrJr ,

Thats dope. I suppose grandma? Do you keep them around to copy stuff over to your current project?

fitjazz ,

Mostly Avolites and ETC. Mostly just always save to a couple of USB sticks as backup, one of which lives on my keys and the other in my computer bag. It is nice to have quick access to my user profile and some pre-built stuff though. Some of them I keep around because I do those shows every year but mostly it’s just not worth the effort of deleting them because the files are so small. They are also all backed up to my home server.

linearchaos ,
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512GB Ventoy, every version windows that can boot from ISO. Gandalf’s win 10 PE, gandalf’s 111 PE, Debian live ISO, max versions of Debian and NixOS, silver blue and fedora. Ubuntu along with LTS. I could have put my crypto partition on it, but I actually like keeping that as a separate key.

czardestructo ,
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I had to google ventoy and now I feel like a cave man because I have a dish with 6 flash drives that all have different ISOs

BigPotato ,

My dish still has a flash drive marked “Win 8” which I’ve since overwritten with… Some flavor of Linux. Mint maybe.

Hedlosa ,

A medicat install, insanely useful.

PlexSheep ,

What is that?

Hedlosa ,

A bunch of (totally) legally aquired tools on a ventoy install. medicatusb.com also check out their discord we got a great community

01189998819991197253 ,
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I’ve been using Hiren’s, but this seems potentially even better. Thanks!

vaionko ,

Ventoy with every ISO I’ve needed to install, and Snappy Driver Installer Origin with its full set of drivers.

GustavoM ,
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Eh…

Ventoy (on a comically small external hd – 8 GiB) and retrogaming/backup-related files on a 1 TB one.

chocosoldier ,

right now mine has manjaro+cinnamon. i booted my wife’s Win11 laptop to it so she could test drive it and within ten minutes she was asking how to get to the installer. i hope to repeat this process with others as well.

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