ram(4) Device Drivers Manual ram(4)

ram - ram disk device

The ram device is a block device to access the ram disk in raw mode.

It is typically created by:


mknod -m 660 /dev/ram b 1 1
chown root:disk /dev/ram

/dev/ram

chown(1), mknod(1), mount(8)

2023-10-31 Linux man-pages 6.7