From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from joana.gotss.net ([203.53.231.66] ident=mail) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 173vSI-00020X-00 for ; Sat, 04 May 2002 05:03:51 -0400 Received: from kerry by joana.gotss.net with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 173vSC-0001fZ-00 for ; Sat, 04 May 2002 17:03:44 +0800 Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 17:03:44 +0800 To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: ram disk question Message-ID: <20020504170344.A6409@joana.gotss.net> References: <20020502214325.GA26162@asmodean.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020502214325.GA26162@asmodean.net>; from raul@asmodean.net on Thu, May 02, 2002 at 04:43:25PM -0500 From: Kerry Hoath 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: Upper limit of a ramdisk is 16 meg I believe, you'd have to look in ramdisk.c but i think that is correct. On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 04:43:25PM -0500, Raul A. Gallegos wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Kerry Hoath: kerry@gotss.net kerry@gotss.eu.org or kerry@gotss.spice.net.au ICQ: 8226547 msn: kerry@gotss.net Yahoo: kerryhoath@yahoo.com.au