Hi Friend,
Hindi naman mahaba ang method ng sa Part 1, kung ganun man, parang sinabi na rin ninyong mahaba ang method na pinost ninyo since hindi naman ako ang nag-post ng Part 1.
Also never ko naman sinabing may mali ka when I first commented/posted, nililinaw ko lang sa mga readers na hindi po installation tutorial ang pinost ninyo, kundi tutorial ng paggawa ng installer. Ang mismong instructions sa post ninyo ay nasa Ubuntu website din naman, and malinaw na nakalagay dun na panggawa ng installer yun.
About sa "pagkasira" ng isang storage device due to formatting, same naman ang effect ng full format versus writing and erasing a file although of course, mas mabilis ang deterioration kung full reformat versus just erasing and re-writing a file into the storage device. Normal wear-and-tear po yun ng product. They are bound to deteriorate over time. Hence, regardless kung full format mo or i-delete ang persistent file (which consumes from at least 1GB to 4GB of the total space of your storage device), pareho lang na mag-deteriorate yun.
Again nililinaw ko lang kasi yung pagkaka-post mo, it might give other readers the impression na nag-iinstall na sila ng Ubuntu (or nagre-reinstall using your tutorial, regardless kung Part 1 method or Part 2 method pa ang gawin) where in essence hindi naman, kasi Live Session po ang tawag diyan.
May advantages and disadvantages ang pagkakaroon ng "persistent" file when using a Live Session...available po siya sa Internet kung mag-Google tayo:
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/what-is-persistent-linux/.
Also for an idea on what a "Live Session" means, you can visit Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_CD
Please note: never kong intention ang manira ng iba, in fact tinutulungan kita by clarifying, and wala akong sinabi ever na may mali ka. In the end, yung mga readers naman ang mag-suffer pag may maling nangyari...hindi naman ikaw or ako, so we need to be very clear and responsible with the things we share to the community.
Friends,
If you want to learn more about Ubuntu, you may visit the sticky Ubuntu Tutorials Thread; all tutorials are already linked to Page 1. Thanks!