| .\" Copyright (c) 1993 Michael Haardt (michael@moria.de), |
| .\" Fri Apr 2 11:32:09 MET DST 1993 |
| .\" |
| .\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later |
| .\" |
| .\" Modified Sat Jul 24 17:01:11 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) |
| .TH ram 4 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" |
| .SH NAME |
| ram \- ram disk device |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| The |
| .I ram |
| device is a block device to access the ram disk in raw mode. |
| .P |
| It is typically created by: |
| .P |
| .in +4n |
| .EX |
| mknod \-m 660 /dev/ram b 1 1 |
| chown root:disk /dev/ram |
| .EE |
| .in |
| .SH FILES |
| .I /dev/ram |
| .SH SEE ALSO |
| .BR chown (1), |
| .BR mknod (1), |
| .BR mount (8) |
