Upper limit of a ramdisk is 16 meg I believe, you'd have to look in ramdisk.c but i think that is correct. On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 04:43:25PM -0500, Raul A. Gallegos wrote: > Hi. Question regarding ram disks. > > I've looked at various howtos but I'm either missing on what I need to > read or what I want to do is not possible. > > I'm wanting to populate around 100 megs of data onto a virtual partition > le'ts say made of a ram partition on a machine that all it has is a > cdrom and 1 gig of ram. I tried doing: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram0 count=195555 > > to get a ramdisk around 100 mb in size but I get the error no space left > on device. > > On another machine with a hard drive I can do this if I just create a > file /tmp/tmpfs and do the dd command there. I can then mke2fs the file > and mount it and have a 100 mb loop block device. So in short, how can > I do this but with a ram disk? > > Thanks. > -- > If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can > go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way will promptly develop. > Raul A. Gallegos - http://www.asmodean.net > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.net kerry at gotss.eu.org or kerry at gotss.spice.net.au ICQ: 8226547 msn: kerry at gotss.net Yahoo: kerryhoath at yahoo.com.au
