in response to a posting in my local linux user group, how does one build in-memory ramdisks (a redundancy, i'm sure) on the fly?
once upon a time, i'm sure i pulled this off with: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram0 bs=1k count=16384 (for example) # mke2fs /dev/ram0 # mount /dev/ram0 /mnt i now have a 16M filesystem in memory, which i can see with "mount", "df" and so on, and i can build more on /dev/ram1 and so on. the current issues: 1) under seawolf, i can't seem to make them >4M. is there a reason for this? i'm sure i used to make them larger. 2) is there a way to list the currently allocated ramdisks in memory with a single command? 3) is there a way to free this memory when the filesystem is no longer needed? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Eno River Technologies, Durham NC Unix, Linux and Open Source training Microsoft: Committed to putting the "backward" into "backward compatibility." _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
