Hello,
Solaris has something called tmpfs. Some ppl wanted it under
linux.
An easy way to do is create ramdisk and then just mount it
as /tmp. It comes out especially handy if you boot whole
system in readonly mode and some programs require writable
tmp (like X for its pipes).
I used to do something like
mke2fs -vm0 /dev/ram 2048
mount /dev/ram /tmp
and it used to work like charm. However, unfortunatelly, it
does not work for me anymore :( Any idea what changed?
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[root@pepsi adam]# /sbin/mke2fs -vm0 /dev/ram 2048
mke2fs 1.17, 26-Oct-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=1024 (log=0)
Fragment size=1024 (log=0)
256 inodes, 2048 blocks
0 blocks (0.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=1
1 block group
8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group
256 inodes per group
Writing inode tables: done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
[root@pepsi adam]# mount /dev/ram /mnt2 -t ext2
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/ram,
or too many mounted file systems
[relevant part of dmesg]
MSDOS: Hardware sector size is 1024
fatfs: bogus cluster size
VFS: Can't find a valid MSDOS filesystem on dev 01:01.
VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev ramdisk(1,1).
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[root@pepsi adam]# /sbin/mke2fs -V
mke2fs 1.17, 26-Oct-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
Using EXT2FS Library version 1.17
[root@pepsi adam]# mount -V
mount: mount-2.9u
[root@pepsi adam]# uname -a
Linux pepsi 2.3.42 #240 SMP Tue Feb 1 18:57:15 EST 2000 i686 unknown
[root@pepsi adam]# cat /proc/filesystems
ext2
nodev proc
nodev nfs
iso9660
nodev devpts
vfat
[root@pepsi adam]#
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