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Should I be worried about wearing out my flash drive?

Posted by endolith at Apr 07, 2009 09:00 PM

USB flash drives should have wear-leveling and and block management built in, but writing to the drive constantly will still wear it out quickly. How often is the persistent info written to the drive? Once per boot?

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Answer here

Posted by Rudd-O at Apr 07, 2009 09:03 PM

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can't view that

Posted by endolith at Apr 07, 2009 09:27 PM

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I blew it

Posted by Rudd-O at Apr 07, 2009 09:28 PM

Earlier today, I forgot to publish the content. It's done, though. :-)

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Thanks

Posted by endolith at Apr 07, 2009 09:41 PM

My second question is "how do you modify the GRUB to avoid persistence"? :)

I would like to have two boot options in GRUB, one persistent and one not, in case the persistent one fails or just in case i dont want to use it. (In fact, I think this should be included by default.) I am trying to figure out what "boot=casper file=/preseed/ltsp.seed persistent" means, but I'm sure you already know this...

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Thanks

Posted by endolith at Apr 07, 2009 10:31 PM

Actually you need to modify menu.lst. Modifying grub.conf doesn't do anything. Mine looks like this now:

title Ubuntu (Live) persistent
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz boot=casper file=/preseed/ltsp.seed persistent
initrd /boot/initrd.gz

title Ubuntu (Live) non-persistent
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz boot=casper file=/preseed/ltsp.seed
initrd /boot/initrd.gz

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Remove the "persistent" word

Posted by Rudd-O at Apr 07, 2009 10:40 PM

...from the GRUB configuration to make it non-persistent. You can duplicate the boot entry in the GRUB configuration to have two, one persistent and one non-persistent.

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Creating bootable Live SD cards

Posted by Daryl Van Humbeck at Aug 11, 2009 04:12 PM

Portable Linux works great for flash drives, but what about supporting SD cards?
Is there a way to make it put an installation on an SD card?

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It works

Posted by Rudd-O at Aug 11, 2009 04:13 PM

I use it on my SD card adapter to USB.

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Can I install Portable Linux on an external hard drive?

Posted by Andrew Min at Sep 14, 2009 09:11 PM

Does Portable Linux support external hard drives, or only flash drives?

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It ought to work.

Posted by Rudd-O at Sep 14, 2009 09:11 PM

...on external hard drives.

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