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From: Joe on 16 Jan 2010 02:23
notbob wrote on 01/15/10 09:16:

> On 2010-01-15, Joe <joe(a)mailinator.com> wrote:
>> Sure you can. There are tools out there to just do that.
>
> But yer gonna make me work fer it, ainchya, ya little dickens!
>
> lol....
>
> not-to-be-detered


Sorry...
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

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From: Peter Chant on 16 Jan 2010 05:00
JohnF wrote:

> Peter Chant <peteRE(a)mpeteozilla.vco.uke> wrote:
>> I do not use swap on my eee, I've the SSD drive so I don't want to
>> prematurely age it. Pete
>
> I thought real SSD's didn't suffer from that wear levelling problem,
> only memory-stick-type devices. Am I wrong about that?

I beleive it is all flash memory. However, the suggestion seems to be that,
in normal usage they will last long enough that the problem should not show.
I added an option, can't remember which right now to reduce writes
(noatime?) and also set up /tmp on a ramdisk.

Pete

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From: Jerry Peters on 16 Jan 2010 16:02
Peter Chant <peteRE(a)mpeteozilla.vco.uke> wrote:
> JohnF wrote:
>
>> Peter Chant <peteRE(a)mpeteozilla.vco.uke> wrote:
>>> I do not use swap on my eee, I've the SSD drive so I don't want to
>>> prematurely age it. Pete
>>
>> I thought real SSD's didn't suffer from that wear levelling problem,
>> only memory-stick-type devices. Am I wrong about that?
>
> I beleive it is all flash memory. However, the suggestion seems to be that,
> in normal usage they will last long enough that the problem should not show.
> I added an option, can't remember which right now to reduce writes
> (noatime?) and also set up /tmp on a ramdisk.
>
> Pete
>
You might also want to move Firefoxes cache directory to /tmp also. I
now do it on all my computers just so I don't backup the junk when I
dump /home:

Parent directory for the disk cache directory Cache:
browser.cache.disk.parent_directory string path

Set this in about:config to /tmp

Jerry
From: jr4412 on 16 Jan 2010 17:38
On 16 Jan, 21:02, Jerry Peters <je...(a)example.invalid> wrote:
>
> You might also want to move Firefoxes cache directory to /tmp also. I
> now do it on all my computers just so I don't backup the junk when I
> dump /home:
>
> Set this in about:config to /tmp
>
>         Jerry

good thinking, thank you for this tip.
From: Eef Hartman on 18 Jan 2010 07:34
JohnF <john(a)please.see.sig.for.email.com> wrote:
> I thought real SSD's didn't suffer from that wear levelling problem,
> only memory-stick-type devices. Am I wrong about that?

Yes, you are.
SSD's still use the same sort of flash-ram like memory sticks do
so also do have the wear problem (I think it is 100 000 writes for
the kind of chips a SSD uses, but there still IS a limit on writing).
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