what filesystem do i use...i tried the following:L

i created ram under /mnt and typed:

mount /dev/ramdisk /mnt/ram

and it said "can't find valid MSDOS filesystem on dev 01:00

how do i create a ramdis for use with my data files


dmesg says I have 16 ramdisks of 4096k size

Jann


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-----Original Message-----
From:   Alfonso Barreto Lopez [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:   Tuesday, June 09, 1998 10:46 AM
To:     Jann Linder
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Subject:        Re: Ramdisk for linux?

Yes there is , as far as I know it comes by default in the
intalation's kernel whatch it with "dmesg" if it is running if not, you
will have to build the kernel with that option.

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Alfonso Barreto Lopez     Inst. de Inv. de Matematicas   U.N.A.M
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On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Jann Linder wrote:

> Is there a ramdisk for linux....
> 
> I have a read-only db (flat file text) that i would like to place in ram...and the 
>RAM speedup would greatly help me.
> 
> 
> Jann
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