can i use a usb drive as main memory

[thellamafarm]

I was wondering if i could use a usb drive as part of my main memory. I am using a 4.0 live cd and could u tell me how to do this?

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I was wondering if i could use a usb drive as part of my main memory. I am using a 4.0 live cd and could u tell me how to do this?
You could put a swapfile on the USB drive. Is that what you are asking?

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- Robert
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[maxIT]

Technically isn't an issue to mount usb as swap, root (!?), /tmp partition and so on..., but it isn't a good idea. This because usb-keys hardware consist in cells with short number of rewritings limit, and an heavy usage such as swapping can cause the death of the device in no many time!

[thellamafarm]

well its only 32mb :( but i wanted to make it so that i could download stuff and put it to it and help out by adding mmore memory because i dont get much ramdisk memory