The Rufus 3.7 release notes mention that with this release, the persistent partition support is finalized (so it's not longer experimental) for Debian and Ubuntu. Related: How To Make a Bootable Windows 10 USB On Linux Using WoeUSB. But it doesn't support every Linux distribution out there. With the latest Rufus 3.7 beta though, the persistent partition feature works (I tested it with the latest daily build of Ubuntu 19.10 Eoan Ermine). This application is able to create persistent live drives that work in both UEFI (MBR or GPT) and BIOS mode, with casper-rw being used for the persistent storage partition, so it can have a size of more than 4GB.Įxperimental persistent partitions support was first added to this Windows bootable Live USB creation tool with version 3.6, but it didn't seem to work properly, as in my test, any changes made to the Live USB did not persist between reboots.
It can be used to create not only bootable Windows drives from ISO files or disk images, but also create bootable Linux USB drives from Windows. Rufus is a popular free and open source graphical tool to create bootable USB drives from Windows. Starting with Rufus version 3.7, the application has finalized the persistent partition support for Debian and Ubuntu, allowing users to create persistent storage live USBs of recent Debian Live ISOs, and Ubuntu Live ISOs created after 1st of August, 2019.
