From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from saidin.asmodean.net ([216.254.114.61]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 173OMl-0004dJ-00 for ; Thu, 02 May 2002 17:43:55 -0400 Received: from raul by saidin.asmodean.net with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 173OMI-0006ok-00 for ; Thu, 02 May 2002 16:43:26 -0500 Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 16:43:25 -0500 To: Speakup Mailing-list Subject: ram disk question Message-ID: <20020502214325.GA26162@asmodean.net> Mail-Followup-To: Speakup Mailing-list Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i From: "Raul A. Gallegos" Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Hi. Question regarding ram disks. I've looked at various howtos but I'm either missing on what I need to read or what I want to do is not possible. I'm wanting to populate around 100 megs of data onto a virtual partition le'ts say made of a ram partition on a machine that all it has is a cdrom and 1 gig of ram. I tried doing: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram0 count=195555 to get a ramdisk around 100 mb in size but I get the error no space left on device. On another machine with a hard drive I can do this if I just create a file /tmp/tmpfs and do the dd command there. I can then mke2fs the file and mount it and have a 100 mb loop block device. So in short, how can I do this but with a ram disk? Thanks. -- If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way will promptly develop. Raul A. Gallegos - http://www.asmodean.net