Am 03.08.2010 09:43, schrieb jesse jaara: > It is possible you will have to reformat your pendrive to use filesystem > other than fat, using the journaling filesystems will wearout the pen > drive fast so ext2 or pisssibly ?nilfs2? are the ones to go whit. > Also you shouldn't use any swap in usb sticks as it will also wear it out > , I assume that you alredy know that ubs sticks are much slower than hds. The costs of USB drives are so low that wearing one out isn't a big problem. Still, if you really don't want a journal, create ext4 without a journal - ext2 is ancient and much slower than ext4. > But here is what have to do: > > 1. sudo mkfs -t ext2_or_some_other_fs /dev/sdx1 > 2. sudo mount /dev/sdx1 /mnt > 3. sudo cp -a /{bin,boot.etc.home,lib,media,opt,root,sbin,srv,usr,var} /mnt/ cp -ax /* is shorter > 4. edit the /mnt/etc/fstab and /mnt/grub/menu.lst to use the new root > partion /dev/sdx1 > you SHOULD use uuids instead of the devise names > 5. sudo grub-install /dev/sdx These things fail a lot with grub sadly, I recommend syslinux. > 6. sudo mkdir /mnt/{dev,sys,proc} > 7. sudo mknod -m600 /mnt/dev/console c 5 1 > sudo mknod -m644 /mnt/dev/null c 1 3 > sudo mknod -m644 /mnt/dev/zero c 1 5 > > and now you should be redy to boot off You want to add usb support to mkinitcpio if you actually want to boot this.
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