Manpages - ram.4

ram - ram disk device

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

/dev/ram

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

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