I was wondering if there was a WAY to create a dual-partitioned Thumb Drive, so I can take say my Xubuntu 9.04 bootable thumb drive and shrink it to say 1/2 the existing partition and then create a partition in the 50% of space that becomes available as FAT32 to have cross platform support.

The idea I have is a cross platform Linux bootable thumb drive where I can SEND files to the thumb device from a Windows system as a thumb drive for the FAT32 partition, whereas the Linux partition is unseen.

Then boot off teh thumb drive and access these files on the FAT32 partition and be able to edit them etc, then PLUG the thumb drive back intot he Windows system and grab the edited files off the FAT32 partition.

This is for a laptop that I want to take on the road with me and keep all my data on the thumb including the OS. The laptop will be driveless. Then when I get back to my office I can pop the thumb drive into my Windows system and have access to my files that I worked on while on the road.

* I am able to create the bootable thumb drive and it works well, but resizing and adding FAT32 on a bootable thumb drive is an area that I am unfamiliar with and requiring assistance.

Also the USB thumb drive is 4GB capacity and I have about 2.6GB FreeParagon Partition Manager
Hey cool, but is there a free ALTERNATIVE than paying $40...maybe a Linux utility?Quote from: FearFactory on October 03, 2009, 09:26:48 PM

Hey cool, but is there a free alternative than paying $40...maybe a Linux utility?