From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com ([204.127.198.38]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 173zQi-0002GW-00 for ; Sat, 04 May 2002 09:18:29 -0400 Received: from h0020780ec927.ne.client2.attbi.com ([24.62.35.237]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020504131800.NDZZ9799.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@h0020780ec927.ne.client2.attbi.com> for ; Sat, 4 May 2002 13:18:00 +0000 Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 09:17:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Gueths X-X-Sender: igueths@igueths To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: ram disk question In-Reply-To: <20020504170344.A6409@joana.gotss.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Raul. This is just a suggestion, but possibly edit the default value in ramdisk.c to reflect the amount of ram in the system? Or rebuild your kernel with a different max_ramdisk_size? This may not even work, just thought I'd put it out there as a suggestion. On Sat, 4 May 2002, Kerry Hoath wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >