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Name

ram - ram disk device

Description

The ram device is a block device to access the ram disk in raw mode.

It is typically created by: 

mknod -m 660 /dev/ram b 1 1
chown root:disk /dev/ram

Files

/dev/ram

See Also

  1. chown(1),
  2. mknod(1),
  3. mount(8)

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