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I have discovered that Knoppix nowadays often leaves the persistence file system with errors.

I also note that persistence files can occasionally get corrupted; usually in my case, from imperfect
shut-downs. It helps to have a pristine backup of persistence files, just in case.
I find it useful to occasionally examine what dmesg has to say in this regard:

dmesg | grep -i corrupt

This will not only find problems with persistence, it will uncover similar problems
which may have crept into Windows and data partitions.

An additional technique I use is to make cloop overlays of well-developed persistence files
as additional fat32-partition-KNOPPIX[n] files which are pretty much immune to shut-down corruption.
After adding such an overlay, I immediately use gparted to create a new 'empty' (reiser)
persistence file for additional changes which I might make to my Knoppix LiveUSB.

I try to minimize whatever is left to additional read/write persistence. After I get my Knoppix
'immunized' somewhat in this way, I consider on-going r/w persistence as 'temporary' and just
resurrect from notes any losses due to imperfect shut-downs.
A minimalistic back-up of small r/w persistence files is an obvious alternative I might use here.