ram(4) Device Drivers Manual ram(4) NAME ram - ram disk device DESCRIPTION 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 FILES /dev/ram SEE ALSO chown(1), mknod(1), mount(8) Linux man-pages 6.9.1 2024-05-02 ram(4)