Can I use a bootable pen drive to store data other than Linux OS?

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Can I use a bootable pen drive to store data other than Linux OS? I have this pen drive

Sandisk Cruzer Blade

Yes you can, however if you refer to https://askubuntu.com/help/on-topic, you'll note only Ubuntu and official flavors of Ubuntu (https://ubuntu.com/download/flavours) are on-topic on this site. The on-topic link provides alternate SE sites for non-Ubuntu OSes. — guiverc, Sep 02 '21 at 12:13
@lucki1000 Ventoy used exFAT. Older versions of Ubuntu need an add on to use exFAT. — C.S.Cameron, Sep 05 '21 at 02:11
Ventoy can also use NTFS and Ext4, my private stick used ext4 and my office stick uses NTFS to access it under windows. @C.S.Cameron — lucki1000, Sep 05 '21 at 12:50

sudodus · Answer 1 · 2021-09-02T15:59:59.150

Different bootable USB drives

Maybe the most convenient way to get what you want is

a persistent live drive or
an installed system in a USB drive (installed like into an internal drive, but in this case to a pendrive).

You can also have a live-only drive with part of the drive for storage.

Edit: The Sandisk Cruzer Blade series are reliable but slow USB pendrives. I would not recommend an installed system, but rather a persistent live or live-only system with a partition for data storage on that kind of drive. I would also recommend an Ubuntu flavour with a light desktop environment (Lubuntu, Ubuntu MATE or Xubuntu).

See these links:

About file systems

How do I copy a file larger than 4GB to a USB flash drive?

About bootable external drives

@DashingDojo, I'm sorry, I live in Sweden, and don't know the Indian market. Let us hope that somebody, who knows the market will chip in and help you. You can also ask in the Ubuntu Forum for hardware. — sudodus, Sep 07 '21 at 11:14

Can I use a bootable pen drive to store data other than Linux OS?

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Different bootable USB drives

See these links:

About file systems

About bootable external drives