[ale] USB Pen Drive Swapfile (Knoppix)

[Christopher Fowler]

Yep.  That should work.  

If your brave, I would use a 1.4mb floppy and set swap=/dev/fd0.


On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 09:41:45AM -0500, Debrihmi wrote:
> Hello there!
> 
> I have other question for you folks today.  I'm big on passing out copies of 
> Knoppix Live CDs.  When I'm in a non-Linux environment, I make use of Knoppix 
> to get my work done.
> 
> Question:
> Many times I'm confronted with a system that does not meet the minimum RAM 
> requirements, since Knoppix loads the USB devices before the GUI kicks in, I 
> would like to know how I could use a UBS Pen Drive as a swap file device.  
> Yes, I do know that flash media has a limited lifetime and that swap use 
> would blow through a drive in no time (rated million read/writes per cell), 
> but since the prices ARE going down (E-Bay 256MB $50) and I do NEED a fast no-
> nonsense and portable solution to 'extend' the specs on a machine, I'm 
> willing to give it a shot.
> 
> How can this be done? (knoppix swap=/mnt/sda1)??
> 
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