ram.4

ram

NAME
DESCRIPTION
FILES
SEE ALSO

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NAME

ram − ram disk device

DESCRIPTION

The ram device is a block device to access the ram disk in raw mode.

It is typically created by:

mknod −m 660 /dev/ram b 1 1
chown root:disk /dev/ram

FILES

/dev/ram

SEE ALSO

chown(1), mknod(1), mount(8)

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