Yes. I set them up as everything on single ext4 partition, and usually 2gb swap. Two of my Chromebooks were used on and off daily running full installs on usb sticks. Did it for years. Still have a couple installs on usb sticks. More than that, I installed a variety of Linux OS on the same sticks over and over as well as used them as a regular OS for my Chromebooks as ChromeOS is fairly crippled as far as an operating system. I bought my Toshiba and Acer Chromebooks precisely because I knew they could legacy boot in developer mode and run a full install of Linux from a usb. Hope that is clear enoughmichael louwe wrote: ⤴Thu Jul 19, 2018 11:36 amAre you saying that you have run such a fully-installed Linux 32GB Sandisk USB Flash-drive for a few hours daily and it did not fail after a few months - like the normal running of Linux that has been fully-installed on an internal HDD/SSD for a few hours daily.?KBD47 wrote:I've done this for years and they generally don't fail.
....... Running the Linux USB occasionally or for a week or two of testing does not apply = not run as a daily driver.
Maybe the computer OEMs should replace all their new HDDs/SSDs with Sandisk USB Flash-drives = can make more profits.*sarcasm*
Edit: Sandisk Cruzer Glide is one of the most reliable usb sticks I've used, the Blades are pretty good as well.