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Subject: Re: RAM disk creation
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Okay,
I used the routine defined in 'man md' to initialised the ram disk:

disklabel -r -w md0 auto && \
newfs /dev/md0c && \
mount /dev/md0c  /ftp  && \
chmod 1777 /ftp

the response is :
'disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Inappropriate ioctl for device
 disklabel: auto: unknown disk type'

I have two files in the directory /ftp. I would like mount /ftp as a RAM disk containing my two files.
Thanks for your help
Gilles
                                                              
                                                              
                                                              
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Use MFS - and MFS is a memory file system.  It will still swap to disk if
you dont have enough ram to hold it all.

On Mon, 4 Dec 2000 Gilles.Guerrini@alcatel.fr wrote:

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>
> Hello,
> I am running a FreeBSD machine. I would like to store
> several files on a large ramdisk. These files will be used to perform
> FTP transfer via the libfetch functions.
> Is there any way to set up a ramdisk for this purpose ?
> Thanks
> Gilles
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