Re: usb flash sticks, good as swap partitions? or logging partitions?
Tim Kelley wrote:
nah, they're too slow and it's best to use them for what they were designed
for - portability. You want to be able to remove them at will, right?
Course they might be good for booting a live linux filesystem as a rescue
gadget or something, or perhaps slapping your home dir on it and taking it to
another machine or somthing ...
They might, but by the time you start to have a reasonable amount of
storage, a laptop drive in a USB2 case becomes cheaper. Mine is a modest
40 Gbytes and I use it for carrying Sarge plus Woody and the latest
downloads.
Fits in a shirt pocket (but a button-down flap is prudent).
Uses the same cable as many digital cameras (I'd have said all, but
mine's different), so for many uses you don't need to carry the cable
around.
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Cheers
John
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