How can to set debian to write as less as possible (to use it on Flash drive)

2008-02-04 Thread Jabka Atu
Good day,... Since my main pc is laptop i need something that will be as faill proof as posible. so i thought maybe to use flash drive as main drive and forget the swap or what ever the problem rises how ? I'm not sure but most of todaies flash drive has a lifetime for 50K write per bit (not

Re: How can to set debian to write as less as possible (to use it on Flash drive)

2008-02-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 08:53:38PM +0200, Jabka Atu wrote: Good day,... Since my main pc is laptop i need something that will be as faill proof as posible. so i thought maybe to use flash drive as main drive and forget the swap or what ever the problem rises how ? I'm not sure but most

Re: How can to set debian to write as less as possible (to use it on Flash drive)

2008-02-04 Thread Kelly Harding
There are special flash filesystems developed. One of these is jffs iirc. Look at embedded linux/distro information as they do a lot with these sorts of things. Kelly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How can to set debian to write as less as possible (to use it on Flash drive)

2008-02-04 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 08:53:38PM +0200, Jabka Atu wrote: Since my main pc is laptop i need something that will be as faill proof as posible. so i thought maybe to use flash drive as main drive and forget the swap or what ever the problem rises how ? I'm not sure but most of todaies flash

Re: How can to set debian to write as less as possible (to use it on Flash drive)

2008-02-04 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/04/08 12:53, Jabka Atu wrote: Good day,... Since my main pc is laptop i need something that will be as faill proof as posible. so i thought maybe to use flash drive as main drive and forget the swap or what ever the problem rises how ?

Re: How can to set debian to write as less as possible (to use it on Flash drive)

2008-02-04 Thread Nelson Castillo
but who can i disable writes without damaging my system i guess linked tmp with ramdisk is a start but i need more ideas . Thank you in advance. why not look at one of the distro's that are built for flash drive (openwrt ?) Mmm. I guess openwrt is not enough for a laptop. I guess it is

Re: How can to set debian to write as less as possible (to use it on Flash drive)

2008-02-04 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 08:53:38PM +0200, Jabka Atu wrote: Good day,... Since my main pc is laptop i need something that will be as faill proof as posible. so i thought maybe to use flash drive as main drive and forget the swap or what ever the problem rises how ? There are a number of