.\" Copyright (c) 1993 Michael Haardt (michael@moria.de), .\" Fri Apr 2 11:32:09 MET DST 1993 .\" .\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later .\" .\" Modified Sat Jul 24 17:01:11 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) .TH ram 4 2024-05-02 "Linux man-pages 6.9.1" .SH NAME ram \- ram disk device .SH DESCRIPTION The .I ram device is a block device to access the ram disk in raw mode. .P It is typically created by: .P .in +4n .EX mknod \-m 660 /dev/ram b 1 1 chown root:disk /dev/ram .EE .in .SH FILES .I /dev/ram .SH SEE ALSO .BR chown (1), .BR mknod (1), .BR mount (8)