[vox-tech] Creating large ramdisks

[Ken Herron]

John Wojnaroski wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to create large ramdisks (around 200meg) that act as a 
> single partition?  I seem to recall seeing something on the topic a 
> few weeks ago while surfing, but now can't seem to locate the site by 
> googling when I need it?

Sure, it's a filesystem type called tmpfs. All of the memory for file 
storage is taken from the system's virtual memory (ie swap space). For 
example, I use this entry in /etc/fstab for my /tmp directory:

    tmpfs           /tmp            tmpfs   size=512m       0       0