FWIW, I remember the figure of 1000 writes from when flash drives first came out. May or may not have been accurate, may have changed by now. Another FWIW--some distros add "noatime" to the auto-generated fstab entries for flash drives. Presumably they also believe that flash drives have limited writes available. 1000 writes is a lot when all you're using it for is advanced sneaker-net, not a lot for a swap drive. Just $0.85 ($0.02 adjusted for inflation), -mj- Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Technomage wrote: > > >>I have made the required changes to fstab in order to use a 128 meg USB >>device. >> >>only problem I seem to have is that even though the modules are loaded, it >>will not initialize as swap space unless I issue a swapon -a from root after >>startup. >> >>some help would be greatly appreciated. >> >>system is debian kernel 2.6.8-2-386 running on a compaq presario laptop. > > > Have a look at your /etc/rcS.d/ scripts to see when your swap is mounted. > > Some (All?) Debian systems do it twice (but maybe still before your flash > disk is available). > > As a workaround, add a new rc?.d script to run your swapon -a after your > new device is available. > > I understand that flash disks do not like a lot of writing. Maybe use as a > swap is a bad idea (since it could soon fail). Anyone else have experience > with this? (How soon?) > > Jeremy C. Reed > > echo '9,J8HD,fDGG8B@?:536FC5=8@I;C5?@H5B0D@5GBIELD54DL>@8L?:5GDEJ8LDG1' |\ > sed ss,s50EBsg | tr 0-M 'p.wBt SgiIlxmLhan:o,erDsduv/cyP' > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss