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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1993 Michael Haardt (michael@moria.de), |
2 | .\" Fri Apr 2 11:32:09 MET DST 1993 | |
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24 | .\" Modified Sat Jul 24 17:01:11 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) | |
25 | .TH RAM 4 1992-11-21 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" | |
26 | .SH NAME | |
27 | ram \- ram disk device | |
28 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
de99e9e3 | 29 | The \fIram\fP device is a block device to access the ram disk in raw mode. |
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30 | .LP |
31 | It is typically created by: | |
32 | .RS | |
33 | .sp | |
4d9b6984 | 34 | mknod \-m 660 /dev/ram b 1 1 |
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35 | .br |
36 | chown root:disk /dev/ram | |
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37 | .RE |
38 | .SH FILES | |
39 | /dev/ram | |
40 | .SH "SEE ALSO" | |
41 | .BR chown (1), | |
42 | .BR mknod (1), | |
43 | .BR mount (8) |