On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, Muhammad Panji wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > From: Muhammad Panji <sumodirjo at gmail.com> > Subject: [CentOS] Installing OS on Flash Drive on Server > > Hi All, > On my gateway server I'm Installing CentOS on a flashdrive. is that a bad > idea? the server keep hang, I can ping the server from the LAN and from the > internet, the internet connection from LAN to internet is OK but another > service is down, ssh, VPN (PPTPD) and another service. Even the console is > unresponsive so I have to reset the server. Last time when I still can do > SSH to server the / drive is mounted read only, when I try to remount rw it > said error write protected but the flash drive itself have no write > protection. I'm wondering is using Flashdrive on server OS is a bad idea? > anyone have similar experience? thank you. > regards, Hi Muhammad. You might like to check the mailing-list archives for June, as there was quite a long discusiion on using Flash USB drives an SSD's for Centos installations. I think the general conclusions were that Flass drives are not really designed for this, and will wear out quickly, and the SDD's can fail without any warning whatsoever - and bang does your OS and/or your data. Kind Regards, Keith Roberts ----------------------------------------------------------------- Websites: http://www.karsites.net http://www.php-debuggers.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk All email addresses are challenge-response protected with TMDA [http://tmda.net] -----------------------------------------------------------------