RAM(4) - Linux man page online | Special files
Ram disk device.
Chapter
1992-11-21
RAM(4) Linux Programmer's Manual RAM(4)
NAME
ram - ram disk deviceDESCRIPTION
The ram device is a block device to access the ram disk in raw mode. It is typically created by: mknod -m 660 /dev/ram b 1 1 chown root:disk /dev/ramFILES
/dev/ramSEE ALSO
chown(1), mknod(1), mount(8)COLOPHON
This page is part of release 4.15 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, information about reporting bugs, and the latest version of this page, can be found at https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.| This manual | Reference | Other manuals |
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| ram(4) | referred by | initrd(4) |
| refer to | chown(1) | mknod(1) | mount(8) |