Re: [TCLUG:9949] How do I set up a ramdisk?

[Karl Morgan <ksm@dogbrain.com>]

On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Eric M. Hopper wrote:

> 	I have a very disk instensive test that I'm running.  I want to
> speed up my test by having it use a ramdisk instead.
> 
> 	Without rebooting, how do I set up a small ramdisk and bring it
> down again?


1) You can do the following. First decide how big you would like the ramdisk
to be then simply create it. In the example that follows i create a 2Mb 
ramdisk.

     # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram bs=1024 count=2048

2) Then create the filesystem on the ramdisk

     # /sbin/mke2fs -vm0 /dev/ram 2048

3) Then mount it wherever you like

     # mount /dev/ram /mnt

Regards - Karl