Re: Reclaim space from unused ramdisk?

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Jul 27 2005 - 02:59:41 EST


Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >> }
> >>
> >
> >hmm, yes. That's a special-case in the ramdisk driver.
> >
> >The command `blockdev --flushbufs /dev/ram0' should have the same effect.
>
> Interesting. Command not found, here. URL?
>

It ships with util-linux. Weird that a distro would omit it.
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