> I am trying to make a ramdisk and set my TMP directory to it so
> intermediate kernel compile files are stored there and hopefully
> speed up my compiles.
> I have slackware 3.5
> Kernel has ramdisk as a module
> looked at Documentation/ramdisk.txt
> Total mem is 128M
You have presumably loaded the ramdisk module first, or have kerneld
running?
> I thought I could do dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram bs=1k count=32768
> for a 32Meg ramdisk (might be more than I need)
Have you told the ramdisk driver to allow 32M ramdisks? Certainly in
the 2.0.35 kernel in use here, it defaults to a maximum of 4M per
ramdisk.
> then mke2fs /dev/ram/ 32768
> then mount -t ext2 /dev/ram /tmp
> However when I do the dd command it says
> dd: /dev/ram no such device.
> the /dev/ram is there to a link of /dev/ram1 which is a block device.
> What am I doing wrong here?
In my case, I've done the following for a 4M ramdisk:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/etc/rd bs=1k count=4096
mke2fs /etc/rd
gzip -9 /etc/rd
Then as part of my startup script, I have the following command before
the "mount -a" line:
gunzip < /etc/rd.gz > /dev/ram
This works for me every time...
Best wishes from Riley.
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