Please, I belive this questions to be very important, I've been also working with a debian live USB stick, not knowing if the advantages of a live build vs a normal build are really there. I also fail to see any ramdisk loaded while using the system...
Thanks a lot! 2014-01-15 21:56 GMT+00:00 Franck TALBART <franck.talb...@gmail.com>: > Dear Live Debian users, > > I am trying to install my own home server using live debian Wheezy on a > USB key. For the moment, I have enabled the persistence mode which works > great. To do so, I have created a partition on the space left of the USB > stick. Finally, I have created a persistence.conf file containing the line > "/ union". > > Since the whole system and file system are written to the USB key, my main > concern is how much the write process is done on the key. Obvisouly, I > would like to make it as little as possible. > > So, my questions are the following: > - could I manually specify by command line when the file system should be > written into the usb key? > - when exactly is done the write process? I am wondering if this is done > when shutting down the server. If so, it could be a problem if a power > failure happens. > > Thanks a lot for your advices! > > Franck > >
