Creating A Simple Ramdisk

I needed to do a task that thrashes the filesystem a lot by creating many temporary files, then deleting them. Since all of this easily fits in a small ramdisk (I think these are 16 megabytes for my system, by default.)

So I figured, why not speed things up and reduce filesystem thrash with a ramdisk? I picked /dev/ram9, but it doesn't really matter; I also put it in /tmp so that it's not persistent (put it in /mnt and make an addition to /etc/fstab if you want it persistent.)

1234	sudo mkfs -t ext3 /dev/ram9 mkdir /tmp/<name> sudo mount /dev/ram9 /tmp/<name>/ sudo chown <user> /tmp/<name>/

That's it!

Ches Koblents