i've been playing with building ram disks in memory (not to be confused with anything to do with "initrd"). so i can build a ram disk with: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram0 bs=1k count=1024 (1M ramdisk) # mke2fs /dev/ram0 # mount /dev/ram0 /mnt/floppy (silly place to mount, but valid) at this point, i can, of course, copy stuff into that ramdisk since it's just a separate filesystem. a friend of mine used to do this under solaris and copy in all the C header files since he was compiling all day long, and having the header files in memory made pre-processing lightning fast. the question: is there a command that will show me currently allocated in-core ram disks? after all, i can build more with /dev/ram1, /dev/ram2, etc. i'm sure ram disk usage will show up in the output of the "free" command, but is there some command which shows just ram disks? or perhaps something under /proc that i haven't noticed? and how does one *deallocate* them, short of rebooting? and while we're on the subject, does anyone use these on a regular basis? just curious. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Eno River Technologies, Durham NC Unix, Linux and Open Source training "This is Microsoft technical support. How may I misinform you?" _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
