On Fri, 21 May 2010 16:28:32 +0100 John Rowe <r...@excc.ex.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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 > Sorry, Did't mean to change your plans, you should always back up anyway and not worry about it, I'm sure many can confirm more writes than this. Just my personal preference for many reasons, if you have space, is hard drives.
