I know that some (at least for the LiveCD) will use a swap partition on the HD if there is one. I have to hope that putting them on a flash drive retains that trait. Does anyone know for sure one way or the other?
On 11/15/06, Joseph Sinclair <plug-discussion@stcaz.net> wrote:
You could, but the system would usually put swap on the root partition. Since swap is a lot of writes, and many flash-memory drives don't survive large numbers of writes, it is known to destroy the flash-memory drive.
The advantage of the systems that are designed to use flash-memory is that they minimize the writes to flash-memory (usually only on shutdown), thus preserving it. There are a number of systems designed this way, but the most popular are Puppy and DSL (both of which are often used in systems that boot and run entirely from a CF card), but there are some others.
hacktavist@cox.net wrote:
> Just kinda my 0.02$ but, why would it not be possible to install a full
> distro on a 1 gig flash drive. I know that with *BSD it is more than
> possible. Really just wondering.
> Ray
>
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