[Voyage-linux] how to make swap on usb pendrive

[Adrian Reyer]

On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 02:20:24PM +0200, maciek wrote:
> I`ve just 128 MB ram, and I think it could be possible make little swap file
> on usb stick. How to make it?

Adding swapfiles is technically easy, however, people mostly agree it
ist not the best idea to run swap on FLASH storage like usb-pendrives or
CF-cards due to the limited write cycles.
If you still want to do it, you can
a) partition your pendrive and add a swap partition, e.g. /dev/sdb1,
then do 'mkswap /dev/sdb1' and add it to /etc/fstab like anywhere else.
b) mount the pendrive and add a swapfile to it, add the swapfile to
/etc/fstab
just like on a normal Debian installation wrapped in 'remountrw' and
'remountro'. http://wiki.debian.org/Swap

Regards,
	Adrian
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