Added information on Tails persistent storage

Added HowTo for accessing persistent volume on existing Tails usb drive
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Either remove the title bar altogether, or move the window upwards using ALT+drag. Either remove the title bar altogether, or move the window upwards using ALT+drag.
### Persistent Volume ### Persistent Volume
The persistence tools will not work because Tails has not been launched from USB. The persistence tools will not work because Tails has not been launched from USB.
The HVM disk(s) can be configured and mounted from within Tails to provide persistent storage. The HVM disk(s) can be configured and mounted from within Tails to provide persistent storage.
If you want to use an existing USB persistent volume:
- Interrupt the Tails vm boot process with arrow-up when the grub boot menu appears.
- In dom0 attach the USB drive containing the persistent volume to the Tails vm.
- Continue booting Tails: Tails-greeter will detect the encrypted partition on the attached USB.
- Unlock the persistent volume in Tails-greeter and use it as normal.
### Shutdown ### Shutdown
The Tails qube will not shut down cleanly. The Tails qube will not shut down cleanly.