how to mount ramdisk at boot?

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Here's how I do it (taken from 
http://www.georgetoft.com/linux/firewall/index.html)

in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit 
# Added 06/16/01 to support RAMDISK logs
action "Setting up /var/log on ramdisk" /bin/true 
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram bs=1k count=4096 > /dev/null
mke2fs -vm0 /dev/ram 4096 > /dev/null
###

See above html page for exact placement - it follows these lines:
# Enter root and /proc into mtab.  also added /initrd/loopfs for loopback root
mount -f /initrd/loopfs 2>/dev/null
mount -f /
mount -f /proc


and in /etc/fstab:
/dev/ram /var/log ext2 defaults 1 1

Regards,

George







Quoting Eric <swive@getnet.com>:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I made a ramdisk thus,
> mkdir /tmp/ramdisk0
> mke2fs /dev/ram0
> mount /dev/ram0 /tmp/ramdisk0
> 
> What syntax should I use in fstab to remount it at boot?  Anything else
> I
> should do?
> 
> thx,
> 
> Eric
> 
> 
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