Just picked up a 128GB USB A/C stick that can go on my keyring. What are some things I should put on it to have access to at all times?

I already have self hosted services accessible over my VPN, so this would be for when I can’t access that.

I’m thinking at least Ventoy and some common ISOs, then I’m not sure what else.

  • monovergent 🏁
    17•4 months ago

    A metal 128 GB USB on my keychain next to the U2F key

    16 GB Ventoy partition with:

    • Clonezilla (‘deploying’ my system image and backups)
    • Mint Debian Edition (everything needed to test and recover my Debian systems)
    • Debian netinstall
    • Various manuals and reference documents
    • Portable CrystalDiskInfo and VeraCrypt for Windows
    • Dumping grounds for files that I intended to transfer between machines, particularly the XP retro gaming rig
    • An optimistic IF-FOUND.TXT
    • KeePass
    • Previously Windows, until once upon a time, I booted into WinRE via Ventoy, got confused between X:, C:, and whatever else, and proceeded to nuke my USB instead of another disk. The Windows installer lived on its own USB happily ever after.

    And a LUKS encrypted partition in the remaining space with more documents and a backup of almost all of my photos.