ram - Man Page

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

chown(1), mknod(1), mount(8)

Referenced By

initrd(4).

2024-05-02 Linux man-pages 6.9.1