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Thanks for the helpful advice guys, I think I am making some headway with this. pdir= pointed me in the right direction, and links pointing the way to relevant useful info caused me to explore the different menu'ed persistence options, which may have led me to stumble on a way to have different MX ...

I am only just beginning to appreciate that MX and antiX seem to be two sides of the same coin, and where the naked raw power of antiX is enjoyed by antiX enthusiasts, that same power gets demurely dressed and hidden in MX to avoid frightening away us innocents... so maybe it was a deliberate MX K.I ...

For the benefit of anyone else stumbling along in the dark behind me, I've tripped into an antiX wiki which seems to also double up as the MX wiki. It contains an excellent article https://antixlinux.com/the-most-extensive-live-usb-on-the-planet/ which gives a thorough explanation about antix/MX ...

Ah, that makes sense now that you've said it. So presumably even if the MX live boot does not use persistence, the usb structure still includes a writeable linuxfs for remastering. So no point wasting more time on Ventoy if it's not possible to ever remaster its persistence file. No such problems ...

And I must thank you again thomasl - I already did, but it seems to have disappeared. I only want to keep a solid snapshot base which can be quickly returned back to after stepping off at a tangent for whatever reason, and the fact that you have actually already done something similar is quite a ...

Thanks for that useful info fehlix, it's very timely. When I try to re-master the Ventoy live system it causes an "antiX Live Remaster Error", stating that "The persistence device with UUID was not found. Please plug in the persistence device and try again." I'm too much out of my depth to ...

Ta Fehlix, I will give the inject method a try anyway, but it was the possibility for multiple persistence files which was particularly interesting. I'm still trying to find a way to use snapshots as stage backups which can be quickly reverted back to previous when needed (in the absence of a ...

It is quicker and more convenient to boot live MX Snapshots from Ventoy rather than needing to create an individual MX live boot USB for every snapshot. Ventoy also offers ability for more than one persistence file per ISO, allowing to choose which persistence file to load (if any) from a live-boot ...

Thanks for that info, was very interesting - apparently a method for creating compressed system backups with individual files/folders restore capabilities. Seemed to need much personalised manual tailoring, resulting in non-bootable system backups, with ability for full or partial (granular ...

Thanks fehlix, but I'm afraid your knowledge and experience goes far beyond my modest capabilities, which is basically click it or copy and paste. My snapshot iso is on another partition, but the same ssd multi-boots ubuntu and windows and MX21 and has data and swap partitions... so if I go poking ...