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[Jean-Paul <jeanpaul145@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well I put Fat32 on it because my ultimate idea is having a usb key that I can use to boot Ubuntu, but also for storing random data. Fat32 allows me to do that, and anything other than Fat/NTFS wouldn't because random windows pc's wouldn't recognize the partition.
Furthermore, I believe that the LBA flag is indeed set (should be visible on the fdisk output).

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Ubuntu Live USB creator creates persistent install that is limited in storage size
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/284085
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Status in “usb-creator” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed

Bug description:
Binary package hint: usb-creator

I created a LiveUSB disk on, in my case, an 8GB usb disk and slided the "When Starting up from this disk, documents and settings will be: Stored in reserved extra space"-option all the way to the right (according to the tool, this would give me a solid 6.8 GB of free room to use within the LiveUSB disk). I put the Intrepid Beta on it (because the daily build of October 14th failed to boot, I tried it). Afterwards, I booted up the LiveUSB disk, this part went fine. But when looking at the free disk space in nautilus, it always gives me at most just shy of 1GB. This is roughly (or maybe even exactly) the same amount that nautilus shows when booting from an actual LiveCD (at least, as far as I've been able to see).

The problems with this are:
1. that I basically can't update since when I try it, I get "no disk space left" errors from synaptic/aptitude/apt-get/whatever
2. somehow the LiveUSB installation claimed the extra disk space, but is incapable of using it; Therefore, I'm effectively losing space on my usb drive.

This is an annoying bug as I can't install a daily build (at least not the one from October 14th, as mentioned before) of Intrepid, and I can't update the beta. Therefore, I'm hampered in my attempts to test Intrepid (installing the preproduction versions on my hdd is not an option). 

All this said, I know it is a very young project, and it has great potential; I just think that this is a useful bug to get fixed before the rc of intrepid.