My computer only has 256 MB of RAM (I know, :/), and I have plenty of extra flash drives laying around. I know about partitions and formatting, so, can I use one of these USB flash drives for swap? Also, is there any reason not to? I'm running Ubuntu Feisty Fawn and I have a partitioning program.
2007-05-05 17:44:25 · 2 answers · asked by Matt 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
Flash memory is at the 10+ MB/s transfer rate.
Hard drives run at 33MB/s to 133 MB/s.
So, you probably could use a flash drive for your swap file, but it would actually slow the system down.
2007-05-06 04:51:25 · answer #1 · answered by Simon T 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in case you nevertheless have a situation with the flash rigidity after attempting gparted, tell gparted or the linux partitioning toll to delete the undesirable partition and leave it like that. abode windows might want to then be in a position to work out the unpartitioned area and format it fat32. good success
2016-11-25 21:30:13 · answer #2 · answered by curlee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋