Disaster prevention.

[Werner P. Schulz]

At this point the LiveUSB is corrupted and will not reboot
after shutdown.

And you cannot reboot with cheatcode "knoppix noimage"? Of course your persistent memory is damaged, but you can use your backup.

[utu]

Thanks, Werner.

The 'noimage' approach is one means of RECOVERY that I've used.
What I was searching for here is a means of PREVENTION.

What with the cost of USBs coming down, there's not much
justification anymore for 2 Gb installs like I've championed up to now.

My favorite current configuration is a 16 Gb USB with 2 GB partition
and the remainder formatted ext3 with kn-recombine on it.
I can just as well shift downloads to that partition and not run
into the 'disasters' anymore.

Cheers.