Thanks Fred,
David's snapshot is working very well for the most part.
A real credit to it's Refracta base. Couple of questions:

1. fstab is 0 bytes? But seems to work.
Where is the info kept, in Jessie?

*2. # sudo apt-get update* failed,
reporting conflicting distros ... (expected sid but got ceres);
also NO_PUBKEY. Just for information, I know it's still fresh.

regards,
Richard.