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1.\" Copyright (c) 1993 Michael Haardt (michael@moria.de),
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25.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 17:01:11 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
26.TH RAM 4 1992-11-21 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
27.SH NAME
28ram \- ram disk device
29.SH DESCRIPTION
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30The
31.I ram
32device is a block device to access the ram disk in raw mode.
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33.LP
34It is typically created by:
35.RS
36.sp
4d9b6984 37mknod \-m 660 /dev/ram b 1 1
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38.br
39chown root:disk /dev/ram
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40.RE
41.SH FILES
42/dev/ram
47297adb 43.SH SEE ALSO
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44.BR chown (1),
45.BR mknod (1),
46.BR mount (8)