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have a look at fscrypt

you can use fscrypt to encrypt specific directories (e.g., /home) on your SSD, this is the most practical approach without reinstalling

I Updated this morning at about 4:00 UTC. I did not notice any issues, such as a huge number of Updates, although maybe was not watching and have yet to reboot. Sydney Repo. Liquorix 6.14.10-2-amd64 Standard Xfce

Error is 123" indicates an issue with the USB drive or its connection to the system

In the termial run lsblk

Look for /dev/sdb or its partitions (e.g., /dev/sdb1). If it’s not listed, the system isn’t detecting the USB drive

next run dmesg | tail -n 20
This shows recent kernel messages. Look ...

$ sudo live-usb-maker
[sudo] password for rod:
===============================================================================
Starting live-usb-maker 2.41.19-2302
===============================================================================
Only one target usb device was found sdf
Will use ...

I later ran mx-snapshot --cli


Unlike running from the gui, it used /etc/mx-snapshot.conf


ie instead of /home/rod/.config/MX-Linux/mx-snapshot.conf

To create the password protected LiveUSB
sudo live-usb-maker --encrypt --password="my_password" -t /dev/sdU -i /path/to/mx-linux-23.iso

Can ...

/home/rod/.config/MX-Linux/mx-snapshot.conf did the trick

PS imo VeraCrypt is only applicable if you are not using ext4, require cross platform compatibility and plausible deniability . In all other cases fscrypt is the better option

For physical devices LUKS is the better option

There is no need ...

Thanks I'll have a look

I have also previously endeavoured to change the path in /etc/mx-snapshot.conf
In the gui the change did not stick.

Writing the Snasphot to an encyrpted container, LUKS physical device or fscrypt folder if restricted on a laptop or such, is the easy part. I would still like to be able to automatically write the iso to the USB stick, with a password that was set in the Snapshot creation process. Also would like to ...

Not that I am aware of, consequently I write all of my MX Snapshots to a LUKS encrypted HDD

":..Can the tools be used to pass our own longer passphrase and create an ISO..." That would seem to be a good idea ie then no need to boot the USB to changed and save to password

Arch is not worth the required investment of time