seaken64
@Xecure, thanks for the tip. I decided to blow away the antiX-17 Core and I installed the antiX-19 Core, choosing the f_static_root from the F5 menu. It allowed me to create a larger root persistence file. it defaulted to 1.45G.
There was always something wrong with the version 17 Core frugal I had installed. I had to use Sudo to start mc and I was always getting segmentation faults. Now I can start mc normally with my username and I can move around the file system at will.
I will have to re-install the audio driver for Yamaha but I think this was the right choice to go with version 19.2.
Seaken64