Mike McCarty wrote: > ga ho wrote: > >> cly...@clydew.org wrote: >> >>> Is it possible to build Linux from Scratch on a USB Flash Drive. I >>> did build it there but am having a time getting Grub to recognize it. >>> >>> >> Yes I built LFS-6.5 on my desktop and transfered it to a USB drive with >> rsync >> Building directly on the usb drive is slow and not necessary. >> Don't do the rsync while booted into LFS. >> You need the USB stuff built into the kernel as well as the filesystem ( >> I used ext2) and necessary hardware drivers, not as modules. >> > > This is not a good file system to use on USB FLASH drives. You want > one which doesn't require rewriting the directory with every > access to the file system. It'll wear out the FLASH, and it'll > also be very very slow. > > Mike > noatime and noadirtime fixes that and yes it does work well
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