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Red Hat Documentation: man pages: man4: Linux Programmer's Manual (4)

Manpage of RAM

RAM

Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (4)
Updated: 21 November 2025
Index  

NAME

ram - ram disk device  

DESCRIPTION

Ram 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


 

Index

NAME
DESCRIPTION
FILES
SEE ALSO

This document was created by using the manual pages.
Time: 12:11:43 GMT, March 24, 2025

 

 
 
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