On May 21 16:28:32, John Rowe wrote: > On Fri, 2010-05-21 at 11:25 +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > > If you check usb flash stick packaging, it may say guaranteed for a > > 1000 writes which is marketing crypto speech for, sectors may fail after > > 1000 writes. > > However, the root partion is not often written to so presumably I could > have / on the USB stick and swap, /var, /usr, /tmp et al. on a mirrored > pair?
You could also have everything on the USB stick, and possibly also STFU while you are at it, because it's a non-issue.