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Creating RAM Disks in Linux

by Jeff Hunter, Sr. Database Administrator

The following example will create a RAM Disk 1M in size on Linux:

  # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram bs=1k count=1000
  # mke2fs -m0 /dev/ram 1000
  # mkdir /mnt/ram
  # mount /dev/ram /mnt/ram