The use of a persistent volume in a system which is designed to provide
anonymity and leave no trace is a complicated issue.
Read carefully the warning section.
Read carefully the warning section.
Inicie o Assistente de Volume Persistente
Para iniciar o assistente de volume persistente, escolha .
The error message Error, Persistence partition is not
unlocked. means that the persistent volume was not enabled from
Tails Greeter. So you can not configure it
but you can delete it and create a new one.
Creating the persistent volume
When run for the first time, or after deleting the persistent volume, the assistant proposes to create a new persistent volume on the device from which Tails is running.
The persistent volume is an encrypted partition protected by a passphrase. Specify a passphrase of your choice in both the Passphrase and Verify Passphrase text boxes.
Click on the Create button.
Wait for the creation to finish.
If the creation is interrupted before it finishes, you may not
be able to start Tails from this device any more. This can happen if you
close the window of the wizard or unplug the USB stick or SD card during the creation of
the persistent volume. Delete and
reinstall Tails to fix this issue.
Persistent volume features
When run from a Tails device that already has a persistent volume, the assistant shows a list of the possible persistence features. Each feature corresponds to a set a files to be saved in the persistent volume.
Restart Tails to apply the changes after selecting or
unselecting one or several features.
If you unselect a feature that used to be activated, it will be deactivated
after restarting Tails but the corresponding files will remain on the
persistent volume.
When this feature is activated, you can save your personal files and working documents in the Persistent folder.
To open the Persistent folder, choose , and open the Persistent folder.
When this feature is activated, the OpenPGP keys that you create or import are saved in the persistent volume.
If you manually edit or overwrite the
~/.gnupg/gpg.conf configuration file
you may lessen your anonymity,
weaken the encryption defaults or render GnuPG unusable.
When this feature is activated, all the files related to the secure-shell client are saved in the persistent volume:
- The SSH keys that you create or import
- The public keys of the hosts you connect to
- The SSH configuration file in ~/.ssh/config
If you manually edit the ~/.ssh/config
configuration file, make sure not to overwrite the
default configuration from the
/etc/ssh/ssh_config file. Otherwise, you may weaken the
encryption defaults or render SSH unusable.
When this feature is activated, all the configuration files of the Pidgin Internet messenger are saved in the persistent volume:
- The configuration of your accounts, buddies and chats.
- Your OTR encryption keys and keyring.
- The content of the discussions is not saved unless you configure Pidgin to do so.
All the configuration options are available from the graphical interface. There is no need to manually edit or overwrite the configuration files.
When this feature is activated, the configuration and emails stored locally by the Claws Mail email client are saved in the persistent volume.
All the configuration options are available from the graphical interface. There is no need to manually edit or overwrite the configuration files.
The emails of a POP3 account created without using the configuration assistant are not stored in the persistent volume by default. For example, when configuring a second email account.
To make it persistent choose and change the location of the mailbox from Mail to .claws-mail/Mail.
When this feature is activated, the secrets of GNOME Keyring are saved in the persistent volume.
GNOME Keyring is a collection of components in GNOME that store secrets, passwords, keys, certificates and make them available to applications. For more information about GNOME Keyring see the official documentation.
When this feature is activated, the configuration of the network devices and connections is saved in the persistent volume.
To save passwords, for example the passwords of encrypted wireless connections, the GNOME Keyring persistence feature must also be activated.
When this feature is activated, the packages that you install using the Synaptic package manager or the apt-get command are saved in the persistent volume.
If you install additional programs, this feature allows you to download them once and reinstall them during future working sessions, even offline. Note that those packages are not automatically installed when restarting Tails.
If you activate this feature, it is recommended to activate the APT Lists feature as well.
When this feature is activated, the lists of all the software packages available for installation are saved in the persistent volume.
Those so called APT lists correspond to the files downloaded while doing Reload from the Synaptic package manager or issuing the apt-get update command.
The APT lists are needed to install additional programs or explore the list of available software packages. This feature allows you to reuse them during future working sessions, even offline.
When this feature is activated, changes to the bookmarks in the Tor Browser are saved in the persistent volume. This does not apply to the Unsafe web browser.
When this feature is activated, the configuration of the printers is saved in the persistent volume.
When this feature is activated, all the files in the /live/persistence/TailsData_unlocked/dotfiles folder are linked in the Home Folder (files in subfolders of dotfiles are also linked in the corresponding subfolder of your Home Folder).
This option is useful if you want to make some specific files persistent, but not the folders they are stored in. A fine example are the so called "dotfiles" (and hence the name of this feature), the hidden configuration files in the root of your home directory, like ~/.git and ~/.bashrc.
Additional software packages
This is an experimental feature which does not appear in the assistant.
When this feature is enabled, a list of additional software of your choice is automatically installed at the beginning of every working session. The corresponding software packages are stored in the persistent volume. They are automatically upgraded for security after a network connection is established.
To use this feature you need to enable both the APT Lists and APT Packages features.
If you are offline and your additional software packages don't install, it
might be caused by outdated APT Lists. The issue will be fixed next time you
connect Tails to Internet with persistence activated.
To choose the list of additional software, start Tails with an administrator
password and edit (as an administrator) the file called
/live/persistence/TailsData_unlocked/live-additional-software.conf. Each
line of this file must contain the name of a Debian package to be installed
as an additional software package.
For example, to automatically install the dia software, a diagram editor,
and the fontmatrix software, a font manager, add the following content to
live-additional-software.conf:
dia
fontmatrix
To learn about the many software packages available in Debian, visit http://packages.debian.org/stable/.
Installing additional software is at your own risk.
Most additional software requires extra configuration to be able to
connect to the network through Tor, and will not work otherwise. Some other software might, for
example, modify the firewall and break the security built in Tails.
Software not officially included in Tails is not tested for security.