Creating a Persistent Home Directory
If you are going to use the computer more than once with KNOPPIX (or if you just want more
storage space for files than your computer has available in RAM), you can assign your KNOPPIX
home directory (/home/knoppix) to use some of the available space on your hard drive. That
can be done in either of two ways:
Assign an entire partition to be used for your home directory.
Assign a part of that partition for your home directory, in the form of an image file.
You can also put your persistent home directory on rewritable, removable media, such as a memory
stick. Once you create that area to use as your home directory, you can tell KNOPPIX to use it
every time you restart KNOPPIX. Here??™s what you do:
1. Click the squished penguin in the panel, and then select Configure???Create a Persistent
KNOPPIX disk image. A window appears, asking if you are ready to create a persistent
home directory.
2. Click Yes to continue. You are asked which partition you want to use for your persistent
home directory.
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3. Select the partition you want to use to store your persistent desktop and click OK. You
are asked if you want to save the home directory in an encrypted format.
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