https://www.system-rescue.org This is a likely candidate

https://www.system-rescue.org/System-tools Has a lot of the system tools that might be needed

https://www.system-rescue.org/manual/Creating_a_backing_store/ And it has some kind of persistent storage though I am unsure what limits would be

I am surprised to see it is arch-based with arch repos/AUR via pacman/helper. My experience with manjaro using it in the past year or so is that you need to be constantly updating it as per the "rolling release model". If updates are neglected you will run into some big mess. I don't find any comment on the distro choice in the docs. But since a rescue disk is something you would (hopefully!) have lying around for ages without need for it, it seems like using arch would introduce a lot of potential chaos. I was anticipating some kind of LTS debian etc for this kind of use case.

Other than that, looks perfect. Anyone have thoughts on the arch thing?

On Wed, Sep 20, 2023, at 6:51 AM, o1bigtenor via talk wrote:

I have found "SystemRescueDisc" (IIRC the actual name) to be a

most wonderful tool in this kind of situation.

Included is gparted - - - one would have to add one's own keys and files

though. I first started using this on a CD, think I have a copy on

(Should make sure to either find it or create another!)