How do I make a bigger ram disk

Cal Erickson cal_erickson at mvista.com
Wed Oct 18 01:10:46 EST 2000


Ralph,
There are two ways to do this.  You can do it in the source code in
drivers/block/rd.c. there is a hard coded variable there of 4096.

Or simply add 'ramdisk=xxxx' to the kernel command line.

Have fun and enjoy,
Cal Erickson

Ralph Blach wrote:

> OK,
>
> How do I make a bigger ram disk image.  I know this is a really basic
> question but I cant
> seem to find the instructions anywhere.
>
> Chip

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