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Re: Linux on USB
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JR van Rensburg <[log in to unmask]>
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JR van Rensburg <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 18 May 2012 00:00:16 +0100
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On Fri, 2012-05-18 at 00:33 +0200, Charles ELSAESSER WebmailOrange
wrote:
> Due probably to USB local-network addresses order,
>    or perhaps to some other insufficiant USB media management,
>    if your target install media is an USB key, it is farmore better to
> locate the swap partition on the same physical media. 

Just beware - usb keys were not designed to take multiple read writes
and will eventually fail. So it is not best practice to have a swap on
the key
Better to have more RAM.

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