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/Installing_packages_with_pacman  You can 
even add packages
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
> stick somewhere.
> (Should make sure to either find it or create another!)
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