Guest PavelP Posted May 8, 2008 Report Share Posted May 8, 2008 Hello, I run MCNlive from USB drive and I want to create a swap file on the same USB drive. Is it possible? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindwave Posted May 8, 2008 Report Share Posted May 8, 2008 it IS possible, ive just never found it needed. boot from your stick, go to mcc and partition is as you would any other disk, you may lose everything on your LAST partiton, i did this once and my setup was this: MCNL - DATA 700MB 1300MB I then added a 200MB swap and it looked like this: MCNL - SWAP - DATA 700MB 200MB 1100MB but when i did that I was able to keep my MCNL, but I lost my DATA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted May 10, 2008 Report Share Posted May 10, 2008 (edited) Normally, any decent liveCD is automounting the local swap partition for its needs at bootup. Even if it doesn't, you will rarely need it- unless the host machine is very anhaemic. Edited May 10, 2008 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramfree17 Posted May 13, 2008 Report Share Posted May 13, 2008 and as far as i can remember, using a flash-based space for swap is not recommended since that will expedite the "wear" on the storage system. some flash device manufacturers are working around this by incorporating some leveling algorithm that will spread the writes around the device. like what scarecrow said, use a flash-based swap if the machine has very limited RAM, or use less memory intensive applications if you can. to answer your original question, look at the manpage of the mkswap/swapon/swapoff commands. ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted May 13, 2008 Report Share Posted May 13, 2008 bad idea ... usb stick will die with in days I reckon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest PavelP Posted June 7, 2008 Report Share Posted June 7, 2008 Thanks for all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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