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how to mount ramfs

February 2, 2006 - 1:45pm
Submitted by Anonymous on February 2, 2006 - 1:45pm.
Linux

I want to mount ramfs.Is it possible to mount ramfs.It is memory based?How to mount it?any command?procedure?

#mount -o loop initrd /mnt/my

February 3, 2006 - 1:10am

#mount -o loop initrd /mnt/mydir

# mount -t ramfs My_ramfs /mn

March 8, 2006 - 10:32pm
Anonymous (not verified)

# mount -t ramfs My_ramfs /mnt/somedir -o maxsize=10000
# mount
...
My_ramfs on /mnt/somedir type ramfs (rw,maxsize=10000)
#

I guess what you want is actu

March 9, 2006 - 10:26pm
Anonymous (not verified)

I guess what you want is actually called "tmpfs". It a VM-based filesystem (RAM+swap) which contents simply vanish when you restart you PC ;-)

mount -t tmpfs /mydir

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