ram(4) - Linux man page

Name

ram - ram disk device

Description

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/ram

Files

/dev/ram

See Also

chown(1), mknod(1), mount(8)

Referenced By

initrd(4)