a new & improved, self-contained Knoppix personal backup

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Hello, again, Werner.

Just to make sure we see eye to eye on this, I see two different scenarios for using this backup idea:

1..After making some personal additions, and otherwise the LiveUSB with persistence seems to be working ok;
2..After making some personal additons, and the LiveUSB with persistence isn't behaving properly.

In case 1, we want to preserve BOTH our personal stuff & the PROGRAM changes inherent in persistent store.
In case 2, we want to preserve our personal stuff, but we will have to sacrifice PROGRAM changes & start a new persistent store, which will not include any program changes outside of home/, root/, etc/ and syslinux.cfg.

I think this means we may only want to use the noimage cheatcode for case 2; specifically NOT for case 1.
For myself, dealing with case 2, I'd try the noimage first; if it gives a reasonable choice for persistent store
that's the way to go. If not, then I'd repartition the USB with GParted and make a new LiveUSB from scatch,
then add the update disregarding any use of noimage (in this specific instance).