A utility for creating a secondary data partition after using Mintstick
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Fatstick

A utility for creating a secondary data partition after using Mintstick.

This script is intended for use immediately after using Mintstick to create a
liveUSB, it creates a 2nd partition for data in FAT32 on the remainder of the
stick, i.e. if you have a 32 gig stick with a 4 gig iso on it, the script will
create a 28 gig "DATA" partition in the empty space that follows the iso.

It autodetects a stick with an ISO-9660 file system, if you have more than one
stick that has that system plugged in, it will warn you and take no action.
If the stick already has multiple partitions it will also warn you and take
no action, some isos when written to a stick will have more than one partition,
like an EFI possibly, so the script simply warns and exits.

Note: This creates the partition in FAT32 which has a 4gb limit on file-size.
If you need to tote larger files then alter the script to use exFAT.

The file "gksu.sh" is simple a workaround for pkexec hoopla, allowing you to
simply use gksu.sh the way you could with gksu which has been deprecated.