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Posted: Jan. 06 2006,21:46 QUOTE
I'm remastering embedded dsl 2.1 for use on a 'real' HD and 512M flash drives, running under WinXP. I'm new at this and am wondering if keeping a persistent home directory will have harmful effects on the flash media. I can't imagine why, but like I said, I'm a noob :)
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Posted: Jan. 06 2006,21:54 QUOTE
It is likely to wear your flash drive out faster as $HOME than it would just by using it as storage.  There are at least a couple of files in $HOME that get written many times over the course of a session.

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Posted: Jan. 06 2006,23:01 QUOTE
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It is likely to wear your flash drive out faster as $HOME than it would just by using it as storage.  There are at least a couple of files in $HOME that get written many times over the course of a session.

That's what I was wondering mikshaw, thanks.

What gets repeatly rewritten in /home?
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Posted: Jan. 06 2006,23:39 QUOTE
Probably the main one would be your mozilla cache.

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Posted: Jan. 07 2006,02:10 QUOTE
Yeah...that's the big one....constant writes there.
If you install mydsl applications, the fluxbox menu gets rewritten every time you install or remove one.
If you switch desktops, .desktop gets rewritten.

Actually, any application that stores configs will write to $HOME whenever you make a change, and some of these apps will write their configuration on close regardless of whether you've made any changes.

If you have DSL on a flash device, it's really best to run toram, and backup your settings once at the end of the session.

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