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diff --git a/man4/ram.4 b/man4/ram.4 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..1a3fb9f59 --- /dev/null +++ b/man4/ram.4 @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1993 Michael Haardt (michael@moria.de), Fri Apr 2 11:32:09 MET DST 1993 +.\" +.\" This is free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or +.\" modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as +.\" published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of +.\" the License, or (at your option) any later version. +.\" +.\" The GNU General Public License's references to "object code" +.\" and "executables" are to be interpreted as the output of any +.\" document formatting or typesetting system, including +.\" intermediate and printed output. +.\" +.\" This manual is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the +.\" GNU General Public License for more details. +.\" +.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public +.\" License along with this manual; if not, write to the Free +.\" Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, +.\" USA. +.\" +.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 17:01:11 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) +.TH RAM 4 1992-11-21 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.SH NAME +ram \- ram disk device +.SH DESCRIPTION +The \fBRam\fP device is a block device to access the ram disk in raw mode. +.LP +It is typically created by: +.RS +.sp +mknod -m 660 /dev/ram b 1 1 +.br +chown root:disk /dev/ram +.sp +.RE +.SH FILES +/dev/ram +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR chown (1), +.BR mknod (1), +.BR mount (8) |