It could kill your USB flashdrive anywhere from a few hours to a few days of use.still thinking about swap....
why can't I use DOS swapfile, knoppix.swp, create on usb when I boot on HD .
or how, because mkswap and swapon don't find it.do I need to erase knoppix.swp to ? does it work the same way as a real swap partition ?? can it damage usb pen ?
Quote (tripes_inn @ Jan. 21 2006,06:57)
still thinking about swap....
why can't I use DOS swapfile, knoppix.swp, create on usb when I boot on HD .
or how, because mkswap and swapon don't find it.
As others have said, it the issue isn't DOS or whatever, putting swap on a USB flash key will fry the key becuase it has a limited number of writes.You can make a DOS swap partition on your MSDOS hard drive partition.
However, I would not recommend it for a USB flash drive.
It gives you the same problems:
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