

Open Terminal (with the file manager side by side),Ĭarefully type shasum -a 256 (don’t omit the trailing blank!) into TerminalĪnd drag the downloaded file from the file manager into the Terminal window, this will add it with full path,Ĭlick into the Terminal window (to set the focus) and hit Enter. tar.gz download go into the Download folder. The preserved free space can then be partitioned to your liking. i = install, -r 8000 = (p)reserve 8000 MB at the bottom of drive. sudo sh Ventoy2Disk.sh -i -r 8000 /dev/sdx Otherwise the exFAT partition for the ISOs will cover everything but the ESP (EFI system partition), the exFAT can’t be simply resized by GParted or Disks.Į.g.

how to preserve additional space on the USB for other partitions (e.g. There is a README file in the downloaded folder describing options, e.g. Terminal install for the more adventures Minters: The resulting free / unallocated space can be formatted to any file system, e.g. to later format as Ext4 for Timeshift use):įrom the Ventoy GUI, select Option/Partition Configuration, check the “Preserve” checkbox and enter the space to preserve. If you want to preserve space on the drive (e.g. You can also create folders and files in the “Ventoy” (exFAT) partition, the boot menu will only offer the. x86_64 version), enjoy the GUI.ĭon’t forget to close the “ Elevated Privileges” FM window! Double click the appropriate “VentoyGUI.xxx” program (usually the. Open that folder, right click an empty space and select “ Open as Root”, authenticate. This will create a new folder “ventoy-xxx”. Open with Archive manager (default), click “Extract” and select your preferred location (e.g. > Download the latest version of ventoy-xxx…, The GUI itself doesn't require installing.īe aware, Ventoy will occupy the whole USB drive, to circumvent see below for a Terminal install option. The Ventoy multi boot version on a USB drive (stick, HDD).

Included in the download folder there is a beautiful GUI to install iso-files to the “Ventoy” partition and boot from this USB drive to get a boot menu to select which one to boot. Ventoy is a multi-boot environment to boot different ISOs from one single USB drive.
