[SGVLUG] Creating Large Ram disks

[Steve Bibayoff]

Hello,

On 6/17/06, Michael Proctor-Smith <mproctor13 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Anyone know the process for creating large ram disks greater then 16MB
> I would like in the 200-500MB range.

If you are talking about /dev/ram* , then you need to pass:
ramdisk_size=
to the kernel before booting (edit either lilo or grub)

If you are talking about tmpfs, then
mount -t tmpfs -o size=200M,nr_inodes=2k,mode=770 tmpfs /ramdisk


hth,

Steve