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For those of you requiring a portable Ubuntu installation with more than
4GB of persistent storage, the recommended workaround would be to use
ubiquity (the Ubuntu installer) to install directly to a USB disk.
Please note that if you do this, be sure to manually specify the
MBR/Bootloader in the advanced options at the last step of the
installation (which is a bug). See Bug #549756 for more details on the
workaround needed when installing Ubuntu to a USB drive.

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persistent install is limited in storage size (4GB FAT32 Max Filesize Limitation)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/284085
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Status in “usb-creator” package in Ubuntu: Triaged

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.