Ottavio Caruso wrote:
> Hello people,
>
> for some reasons I am considering getting more trouble than I can
> possibly handle.
>
> I am looking for reference/tutorials on how to reduce writes on a flash
> drive, after performing a traditional Linux installation on it.
>
> I know I could go through the tried and tested way of installing some
> sort of live image (slax, dsl, knoppix) but I am a bit put off by the
> fact that they don't provide with a transparent way of installing
> applications.
>
> I don't really like klik and other similar package managers, I would
> like to boot my slackware from a couple of qemu images natively from the
> drive.
>
> Then I would like to find a mechanism not to wear the drive too soon.
>
> I could mount some directories on tmpfs, but which are the directories I
> should mount?
>
> Or should I go through the unionfs route and mount the whole root on
> unionfs, but how can I tell the o/s to synchronize at shutdown?
>
> Knoppix and puppy have this implemented but I couldn't find any
> reference or at least none I could digest.
>
> Thank you
Not sure if I have got the wrong end of the (usb) stick, but these guys
often discuss disk writes and flash drives:
http://www.nslu2-linux.org/
Sorry, can't be more specific than that but I recall there was some
relevant stuff on there or linked out from there.
Sean
