can i instal mint on a usb stick

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Hi as above i have created a bootable usb with mint on it and wondered if i could install it on another usb stick and if so anything to look out for when doing it ?
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If it's a boggo USB stick (i.e. not enterprise grade flash cells) then I'd personally choose a fast, non-journalling filesystem like btrfs to minimise writes. You'll also do well to configure systemd to keep its journal files in RAM instead of writing them all constantly to the disk. See here for more info. You can also set up a tmpfs in RAM for logs and temp files (i.e. mount /tmp and /var to RAMdisk instead of the USB).
 
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If it's a boggo USB stick (i.e. not enterprise grade flash cells) then I'd personally choose a fast, non-journalling filesystem like btrfs to minimise writes. You'll also do well to configure systemd to keep its journal files in RAM instead of writing them all constantly to the disk. See here for more info. You can also set up a tmpfs in RAM for logs and temp files (i.e. mount /tmp and /var to RAMdisk instead of the USB).

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Thanks my son dropped off a 2.5” Sata drive so installed it on that, so it will let me try it for a while
 
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