man4/ram.4

   1 .\" Copyright (c) 1993 Michael Haardt (michael@moria.de),
   2 .\"     Fri Apr  2 11:32:09 MET DST 1993
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   4 .\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
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   6 .\" Modified Sat Jul 24 17:01:11 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
   7 .TH RAM 4 1992-11-21 "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
   8 .SH NAME
   9 ram \- ram disk device
  10 .SH DESCRIPTION
  11 The
  12 .I ram
  13 device is a block device to access the ram disk in raw mode.
  14 .PP
  15 It is typically created by:
  16 .PP
  17 .in +4n
  18 .EX
  19 mknod \-m 660 /dev/ram b 1 1
  20 chown root:disk /dev/ram
  21 .EE
  22 .in
  23 .SH FILES
  24 .I /dev/ram
  25 .SH SEE ALSO
  26 .BR chown (1),
  27 .BR mknod (1),
  28 .BR mount (8)