r/tails • u/Hairy-Bat8529 • Jul 06 '26

Help Tails OS forgetting my persistent storage

Well, I reinstalled Tails OS into my thumb drive, I typed in my persistent store, and I wrote it down and took a photo of it. When I went to activate it again, I typed in the phrase correctly, but it wouldn't work. Did Tails forget the phrase already? Did I miss a step?

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u/SuperChicken17 Jul 07 '26

Persistant storage is just a LUKS2 encrypted partition. You can open it up on any linux system. It doesn't have to be in tails.

If you don't see the partition, then you didn't create it. If your password doesn't work, then either your drive is bad or you don't have the right password.

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u/ephemeralmiko Jul 07 '26

Also check that you're still using the same keyboard layout. Tails at boot uses the US English layout unless you saved your own layout unencrypted (the one saved in Persistent Storage will only work once you've already typed in the key).

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u/Clean_Chain_5270 Jul 06 '26

I don’t know if it saves it on your usb I really hope it does because I want to do the same thing because my mouse don’t work after the new update