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Topic: swap partition on USB pendrive, how can I use it ?< Next Oldest | Next Newest >
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Posted: Jan. 19 2006,17:56 QUOTE
It depends on how much heavy swap usage exists.

It could kill your USB flashdrive anywhere from a few hours to a few days of use.
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Posted: Jan. 21 2006,11:57 QUOTE
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.

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Posted: Jan. 22 2006,12:52 QUOTE
do I need to erase knoppix.swp to ? does it work the same way as a real swap partition ?? can it damage usb pen ?

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Posted: Jan. 22 2006,18:41 QUOTE
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.
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Posted: Jan. 22 2006,18:42 QUOTE
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:

Too many writes to the drive and your drive will die.
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