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notes on how to create a ramdisk or ramdrive in linux or ubuntu

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Create a file system on your "RAM"

sudo mkfs -t ext3 -q /dev/ram1 65536

Create a directory where you can mount your ramdisk or ramdrive

sudo mkdir -p /ramdisk

Mount your ramdisk to the directory your created

sudo mount /dev/ram1 /ramdisk -o defaults,rw

Test your new ramdrive out!

cd /ramdisk/
sudo mkdir test
sudo chown ${USER} test/

Now you can try writing files to it to see how fast it is...

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