4:ram

From Linux Man Pages

      ram - ram disk device
      

Contents 1 DESCRIPTION 2 FILES 3 RELATED 4 CATEGORY

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

RELATED

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

CATEGORY