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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 | .\" |
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 | |
28 | ram \- ram disk device | |
29 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
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30 | The |
31 | .I ram | |
32 | device is a block device to access the ram disk in raw mode. | |
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fea681da | 34 | It is typically created by: |
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35 | .PP |
36 | .in +4n | |
37 | .EX | |
4d9b6984 | 38 | mknod \-m 660 /dev/ram b 1 1 |
fea681da | 39 | chown root:disk /dev/ram |
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40 | .EE |
41 | .in | |
fea681da | 42 | .SH FILES |
2fc0f4df | 43 | .I /dev/ram |
47297adb | 44 | .SH SEE ALSO |
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45 | .BR chown (1), |
46 | .BR mknod (1), | |
47 | .BR mount (8) |