On Fri, 2010-05-21 at 11:25 +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > If you check usb flash stick packaging, it may say guaranteed for a > 1000 writes which is marketing crypto speech for, sectors may fail after > 1000 writes.
However, the root partion is not often written to so presumably I could have / on the USB stick and swap, /var, /usr, /tmp et al. on a mirrored pair? John

