John Heinen wrote:

Is a possible to install, erase and install a different op program such open suse, ubuntu or kubuntu, puppy linnux, on a flash drive

Yes. There are specialized distros for that purpose - a regular distro would quickly kill the flash drive with write operations. /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (11.2°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Am Samstag 04 April 2009 17:12:24 schrieb Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.:

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John Heinen wrote:

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Is a possible to install, erase and install a different op program such open suse, ubuntu or kubuntu, puppy linnux, on a flash drive

Yes. There are specialized distros for that purpose - a regular distro would quickly kill the flash drive with write operations.

Not modern flash. Especially not if connected via USB 2.0. Writing continuously at full USB 2.0 speeds, it will take nearly a decade to wear out a 1G drive that does wear-leveling.

I still recommend against swap on flash, and there are a number of things you might want to do to minimize writes (relatime or noatime come to mind), but they tends to have their own disadvantages.

No, you can use swap without problems. It may be very useful, if you want suspend to disk and use tmpfs for /tmp and possibly /var/tmp and it is possible RAM size is too small for the tmps drives in some situations. Then having a swap can be useful. If you want to reduce the use of the swap parition, you can use a low value (0-10) for /proc/sys/vm/swappiness. For everyone who want to go deep into how to use a usb drive have a look into Theodore T'sos blog: http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/category/computers/ssd/ Herbert -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:

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John Heinen wrote:

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Is a possible to install, erase and install a different op program such open suse, ubuntu or kubuntu, puppy linnux, on a flash drive Yes. There are specialized distros for that purpose - a regular distro would quickly kill the flash drive with write operations. Not modern flash. Especially not if connected via USB 2.0. Writing continuously at full USB 2.0 speeds, it will take nearly a decade to wear out a 1G drive that does wear-leveling. Is that commonly found in plain 8-16G USB flash sticks?

Yes. It's found in virtually every flash device that's been manufactured for a number of years. It's the only way to make them have a reasonable lifetime when they are using a FAT file system (or, really, most non-mtd-device specific file systems). If your device supports full USB 2.0 speeds, it probably has wear-leveling. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/

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have a reasonable lifetime when they are using a FAT file system (or, really, most non-mtd-device specific file systems). If your device supports full USB 2.0 speeds, it probably has wear-leveling.

Thanks - I have a firewall I might just be switching to run on a flash stick.

You can have it mount RO, and send syslog to another computer. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAknaW/sACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VRMwCfQ20Ra+rp9Pv9m37+pII7OkAp +F4AoIzlVIqtYxLGjr9OzI98Gw19ifi2 =acbH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org