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

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Subject: Re: [TCLUG:9949] How do I set up a ramdisk?
From: schewe@tcfreenet.org
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 22:19:30 -0600 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <19991109145929.A6013@omnifarious.mn.org>
Reply-To: schewe@tcfreenet.org

On  9 Nov, 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?
> 
If you have ramdisk support in the kernel you should just be able to do
the following:
mkfs -t ext2 [number of blocks] /dev/ram0
mount -t ext2 /dev/ram0 /mnt/extra



-- 
Jon Schewe 
http://eggplant.mtu.net/~jpschewe
schewe@tcfreenet.org

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