so now that we've got persistent storage set up, we want to configure persistent storage so we can actually start storing stuff from tails on it.
we'll go ahead and switch back to our tails desktop again and take a look at what we can actually store on our persistent storage.
back here on tails, it's a very easy process to actually set up what can be stored on the storage device.
we make this screen just a bit bigger.
each of these items will perform different actions when you turn on the switch here and turn it off.
so when you turn it on, essentially that means you're going to store data or configuration or other settings to the persistent storage.
by default, tails doesn't turn these on because you might not want all of them on.
the welcome screen is that 1st screen when sales starts up, including your keyboard layout in your language.
if you want that to stay the same every time you launch tails, then make sure to turn that on.
printers, if you expect to be printing stuff, the configurations, the saves to actually access the printer will be stored.
network connections, this is for like wi- fi passwords to be stored.
you want this turned on.
the tor bridge, this is going to be any settings related to your tor bridge, especially if you manually add a bridge or want to connect to tor in a certain way.
it will do that every single time.
tor browser bookmarks is pretty straightforward.
that'll store bookmarks, your electrum bitcoin wallet.
i highly suggest turning this on if you plan to use electrum or any bitcoin operations because without this, you would have to remember your seed and re- put in your seed every time you launch electrum if it's not stored to the persistent storage.
thunderbird as well for any email configuration.
gnupg, this will be really important for anything you store for gnupg and encryption, if you have keys stored, so you can create and import keys and have them ready to go.
pigeon internet messenger, some of these tools, again, you might know you might not.
this one will be your contacts, your accounts, your chats.
if you want to keep a record of all of that, you'll want this on.
ssh is of course, if you are sshing into anything or you need access to the keys you can import or save, this is what you'll want to turn on.
otherwise, again, remember, everything is deleted when you turn it off.
and then additional software, if you install additional stuff on top of tails, this will be stored here.
the default tails stuff is stored with tails, but any additional software packages, anything you install on top, you'll want this on.
and then dot files.
these are going to be sim links.
and this will allow you to more easily browse files because they'll link to your home folder.
this will not do folders specifically.
this is sim links to files only.
so keep that in mind when it comes to configuring tails.
so in this case we'll go ahead and just turn all of these on really quickly, or at least the main ones we care about.
and it takes a while because it is now configuring tails and setting up basically pointers to say, hey, store this here.
it's configuring the application.
it's doing a lot on the back end to make sure that your persistent storage works smoothly and works well.
so we'll turn all of those on.
we'll give them a minute to start going through and actually enabling.
and once those have all turned on, you can just simply close this window.
and if you ever need to get to it again, you can just search for persistent storage right there and load it back up.
and that will bring back that screen with all of those settings for persistent storage.
if you want to validate that it does exist, you can check out and down here the different folders that exist, specifically persistent.
you can see that some files have already been created, some folders have.
and you can actually test.
i would suggest here you can create a new folder and test with rebooting tails to make sure your persistent folder is working correctly.
before you dive too deep setting stuff up, make sure it's working correctly and we can go through there.
that way you know you're ready to start saving stuff on tails.
if you have any questions up to this point, of course, let me know.
otherwise, we'll continue on to learn a little bit more about persistent storage before we move to some other topics within the course.
thank you.
see you in the next one.