The HOWTOs talk about ramdisks as part of the install process, but not as something I can use every day. Assuming that I *can* have a ramdisk on hamm, how do I set it up?
So far, I've: put 'ramdisk=2000' in my /etc/lilo.conf file (and run lilo). dmesg tells me that 16 2000K ramdisks were set up, but free shows that no memory is consumed so I assume there's another step to making them available. I want only one, BTW. :-) What's next? I'd expect to need to put something in /etc/fstab, but what's the device file? (/dev/ramdisk?) What if I want more than one? And what's the expected/traditional mount point? The fstype? Is there any further configuration to be done? How do I use ramdisks once they're created? Just copy my files to the disk and symlink to them from where they're expected to be? What do I do to ensure that the files are written to (real) disk on shutdown or at predefined intervals? I'm so full of questions. Surely there's documentation on this somewhere. But: Where? Thanks, --Eric House
