You can use the /dev/shm fs for a temporary virtual disk in ram, since that's primarily what it was created for. Brian Borowski On Sat, 4 May 2002, Kerry Hoath wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >
