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andysimmons
08-01-2003, 04:59 PM
I've been looking for a way to set aside some ram as a partition in Linux, and haven't found much. Has anyone successfully done this, or have any advice for where to start reading? Thanks a million.
mdwatts
08-01-2003, 05:06 PM
A ramdisk or swap partition?

romfs? Check the mount manpage.

Advise for reading material? The manpage and searching G4L.
Morphine Drip
08-01-2003, 05:09 PM
I would say what you'r elooking for is a ramdisk.

instructions would be located below...

http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/linuxfocus/English/November1999/article124.html
andysimmons
08-01-2003, 05:26 PM
Originally posted by Morphine Drip
I would say what you'r elooking for is a ramdisk.

I would say that too - thanks!
mdwatts
08-01-2003, 05:31 PM
Originally posted by andysimmons
I would say that too - thanks!

Well I was the first to suggest ramdisk. ;)
andysimmons
08-01-2003, 08:09 PM
Oh yeah, thanks! I meant to read those manpages as soon as our netadmins finished working on the firewall, (I have to SSH to our linux boxes) but saw the link morphine gave and thanked him first.
mdwatts
08-02-2003, 06:50 AM
Originally posted by andysimmons
Oh yeah, thanks! I meant to read those manpages as soon as our netadmins finished working on the firewall, (I have to SSH to our linux boxes) but saw the link morphine gave and thanked him first.

:)

If you do not have access to a Linux box, search G4L for i.e. 'mount manpage' and you get lots of hits of which you can then read the manpage online.