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.\" Copyright (c) 1993 Michael Haardt (michael@moria.de), Fri Apr 2 11:32:09 MET DST 1993
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.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 17:01:11 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
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.TH RAM 4 1992-11-21 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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.SH NAME
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ram \- ram disk device
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The \fBRam\fP device is a block device to access the ram disk in raw mode.
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.LP
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It is typically created by:
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.RS
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.sp
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mknod -m 660 /dev/ram b 1 1
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.br
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chown root:disk /dev/ram
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.sp
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.RE
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.SH FILES
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/dev/ram
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR chown (1),
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.BR mknod (1),
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.BR mount (8)
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