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Booting Linux off USB pendrives

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Mar 15, 202615031 views
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Booting a Linux system off USB pendrives is one of my favorite things. On a laptop we have the following advantages, The hard disk drive can be shutdown and that reduces power consumption (hdparm) The system heats less and the fans are triggered less frequently The system can take more shocks (a bu…

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Fix for: Booting Linux off USB pendrives

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When booting off USB media, I would be careful of the following: Swap, unless you need it. Save the writes of the flash Keep the filesystem slim, and turn off SELinux/AppArmour unless you need it Tune the journaling and cache settings to get better …

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