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Final note: After using MX Live USB Creator to make a USB drive with Full Features and Persistence, a nearly 14 hours process using a cheap 64G USB drive, I used CloneZilla to make a cloned copy on another same brand cheap 64G USB stick. Took less than an hour, including CloneZilla dowload, boot ...

Aquarius: Thank you. I'm looking into this. Will get a few for special purpose uses.

Tks Mike. Your post should be made sticky. Precious info.
I let the live creator go the run. Nearly 14 hours. Wanted that enough. Yes, I used a cheap 32G USB2 stick. But etching the iso on it takes only a few minutes anyway. I find it odd that it's so long for the live creator to complete it's setup ...

Ok, Fehlix, so dd'ing the ISO on the stick DOES stop me from using the "unused" portion. I understand that it does not creating a partition table. I did not know this was possible. In which case the persistence partition cannot be on the same usb stick as the live system that is booted.
Thank you ...

Thanks MikeR for the heads up on Ventoy. Did not know of that one. I used Etcher this time. So I gather that, yes, a partition should be able to be created on the same USD key for the persistence of MX-Linux. I was wondering if the ISO copied on the key was preventing, somehow, the use of the rest ...

Ok. So I created a partition on the HDD and that worked. So I guess the live usb drive cannot be used for persistence. Right?
Would be nice, though, if I could do it...

Can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.
Created a live usb drive of latest MX-Linux (23.4)
Boots ok and I can use the live system, but cannot activate persistence.
When booting, I choose any persistence option, then I continue the booting process and get the message: cannot find a device called MX ...