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I'm trying to create a live USB that is bootable on Mac and has over 4gb of persistent storage. I've used the Mac Bootable USB Loader to make it Mac bootable, which works. I've attempted to follow the directions here to create a casper-rw partition in GParted using a second Ubuntu USB.

When I boot my USB, I have only 1.9gb available, not the 100+ I should have. If I open GParted, I have only 1 partition, exactly as if I hadn't even created the casper-rw partition in the first place.

The directions are very easy to follow. I did get a warning about using FAT32 instead of FAT16 (something about having to reinstall the boot loader if I was using Windows), but I don't think that is the issue.

Why isn't my drive partitioning properly? Do these instructions just not work for Mac-bootable USBs?

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My issue occurred due to a bug in the version of GParted included with Ubuntu 14.04, which I has been using to edit my partitions. Basically, it crashed when I tried to resize a FAT32 partition. To solve this, I remade my secondary live USB with Ubuntu 12.04 to use a non-broken version of GParted.

(Because I ran in to unrelated issues later, I ended up following these instructions, with some tweaking.)

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