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How to trick Tails to boot off of a small USB drive. 8GB is standard, but I have managed to boot from a 2GB usb flash drive.

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Tails 8GB USB flash drive bypass

Flash tails .img to any size flash drive (less than 8GB).
Plug in USB to any machine with gdisk
Move GTP backup data to the end of the disk and generate new UUIDS:

gdisk /dev/sdX
# Expert Mode
x
# Move GPT backup data structures to the end of the disk
e
# Generate new random Partition and Disk UUIDS:
c R
g R
w
YES

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