Re: [Tails-dev] I would love Tails but...

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Author: Austin English
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To: Daniel Kahn Gillmor
CC: The Tails public development discussion list
Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] I would love Tails but...
On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 5:14 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor
<dkg@???> wrote:
> On Wed 2015-12-02 01:11:51 +0200, Austin English wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 4:56 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor
>> <dkg@???> wrote:
>>> On Tue 2015-12-01 20:06:01 +0200, Donncha O'Cearbhaill wrote:
>>>
>>>> You can boot Tails fully into RAM which allows your to remove the USB
>>>> stick. Press tab at boot to get into the boot options, the provide
>>>> 'toram' as an option.
>>>
>>> cool, thanks for the tip.
>>>
>>> How much RAM is required on the host system to do this successfully?
>>>
>>> Can this be combined with a persistence volume?
>>
>> How could the files persist if you remove the storage device they
>> would be written to?
>
> you could write them elsewhere, not to a USB stick, no? (or to a
> different USB stick)
>
>     --dkg


That's not how persistence works (it uses encrypted storage on the
Tails device). You can write to your non-Tails usb device without
enabling persistence.

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-Austin