I'm trying to create a ram disk under ubuntu. Determined size is 99M. I have over a gig of free memory but still fails with "no space left on device". Any ideas?
Thanks, JJ r...@jesterj:~# rm -rf /dev/ram r...@jesterj:~# mknod -m 660 /dev/ram b 1 1 r...@jesterj:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram bs=1k count=99999 dd: writing `/dev/ram': No space left on device 65537+0 records in 65536+0 records out 67108864 bytes (67 MB) copied, 0.355596 s, 189 MB/s r...@jesterj:~# cat /proc/meminfo | grep "MemFree" MemFree: 1625368 kB -- "Never accept what you hear at face value -- ask questions, do your homework and make sure your interests are protected"
