easy persistent instructions

Setting Up Persistence (Configuring the Partition)

Once the partition manager finished, reboot your computer and boot up from your USB drive. Choose the option "Live USB Persistence", and when it's booted up, open a Terminal and use these commands:

Determine which partition of your drive you'll use
fdisk -l

Remember your drive had a FAT32 partition and a Ext4 (Linux) one?

Make a directory on the filesystem to mount your USB
mkdir -p /mnt/my_usb

Mount the partition on the directory you made (don't click the desktop icon labeled persistence!)
mount /dev/sdc2 /mnt/my_usb

Add a configuration file to enable persistence
echo "/ union" > /mnt/my_usb/persistence.conf

Unmount the partition and reboot
umount /dev/sdc2 && reboot

Now, if you boot up to Live USB Persistence, you'll be able to save stuff everywhere on your Linux filesystem, and every configuration you make locally will be available everywhere you plug it in :)