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Many thanks to oops , CharlesV , m_pav , BitterTruth and dreamer for your replies to my post.

As I said in my initial post, I'm not looking for a solution to the issue right now as I already have a workaround (continuing to use MX19) that I find satisfactory (so although if anyone already knows the ...

I've come across something I'd like information about, but I'm not specifically looking for help with fixing the issue.

I have several external 4 TB NTFS HDDs containing mainly flac and wav files. A typical example would be a drive with several folders in the root, including one main folder ...

Thanks @Charlie Brown . I guess I might not have a use for it, then. Still, you never know: if I start using persistence again it could come in useful.

Thanks for the tip @anticapitalista - I hadn't come across that parameter before, and I think I might have a use for it in the future when booting a full install.

Thanks fehlix . I thought I'd used dd when making the live USB, but I'd got my sticks mixed up (I have many) and I was looking at one where the persistence option had been been checked in Live USB Maker. I've just redone that one with dd (since I have no use for persistence on it) and the state ...

Thank you all for the replies.

To be clear, my preference is for nothing to be written to the USB stick by the system. I am using the live usb to play music from an external hard drive and nothing else: I won't ever update it, I won't remaster it, I won't go online with it, I won't save files to it ...

I'd like to know whether the system on an MX live USB flash drive without persistence will ever write to that drive (logs, for example) or whether all logs etc. stay in RAM. I don't imagine it'll make a difference, but in case it does, it's MX19.3 live running on a mac mini late 2012, Core i7 2.3 ...