Needed fully functional [NOT 'Live'(sic)] Linux on USB stick - was [Re: Ubuntu on pendrive]

[Default User]

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 17:45, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 1 February 2012 22:05, Default User <hunguponcontent at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I went back and looked at the 8gb flash drive in question.  According to
> > gparted:
> >
> > 7.4gb total space
> > 3.5gb main partition (ext4)
> > 3.9gb extended partition, including
> >     3.9gb linux-swap partition
> > 1gb unallocated space
>
> That doesn't add up - it's a total of 8.4GB...?
>
> Do you mean a gigabyte of free space or a megabyte?
>
> > Of the main partition, 2.93gb are used, and 576 mb are unused.  That's
> after
> > applying all current updates.
> >
> > That does leave room to breathe, especially if the swap partition is
> shrunk
> > to free up more space.
>
> Definitely, yes.
>
> > My mistake.  (Always check your work.)
>
> :¬)
>
> > BTW, I don't know why the install program set up a 4gb swap partition.
> That
> > might be excessive.
>
> Of my yes. If you have enough RAM, I would remove the swap partition
> altogether. I find the system will run quite happily with a few apps
> open in 512MB with no swap at all. Swap can very quickly wear out
> Flash media. And removing the swap needs no reconfig - if you want to
> avoid an error at startup, just remove the relevant line from fstab.
>
> (You could do this /first/ as a dry run to check it will run happily
> without swap, of course.)
>
> If this worked, you could either expand root or change the former swap
> partition into a /home partition with a modest amount of fiddling. :¬)
>
> > So, I guess an 8gb device can be used after all.  But I was not able to
> use
> > a 4gb drive, it ran out of space.
>
> That I can believe - you will only get about 3.75G of usable space at
> best and that is a tight squeeze. Lubuntu or something would probably
> do it.
>
> > And note that a FAT formatted partition somewhere on the flash drive
> would
> > make sharing data with Windows users easier.
>
> Very true.
>
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The space figures for the "8gb" flash drive are just what was shown by
gparted.  And the figure shown for unallocated space was indeed 1gb.
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