On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Bret Hughes wrote:
> rpjday wrote:
>
> > i've been playing with building ram disks in memory (not to
> > be confused with anything to do with "initrd"). so i can build
> > a ram disk with:
> >
> > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram0 bs=1k count=1024 (1M ramdisk)
> > # mke2fs /dev/ram0
> > # mount /dev/ram0 /mnt/floppy (silly place to mount, but valid)
... stuff deleted ...
> what doe ps -axv show? Anything useful?
nothing that i can see just by eyeballing the output. it all looks
pretty standard, and i wouldn't have expected a mount, even of a
ramdisk, to have created a new process.
>
> > and how does one *deallocate*
> > them, short of rebooting?
>
> Is there a process associated with these?
again, i certainly don't see one. my first guess was that there
would an entry under /proc somewhere for ram disks, but i didn't
see anything. maybe i'll go back and look harder. perhaps it's
time to (shudder) read the kernel source.
rday
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Robert P. J. Day
Eno River Technologies, Durham NC
Unix, Linux and Open Source training
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