creating ramdisk

[jcoff...@gmail.com]

Hi,

I am having some trouble creating ramdisks on lynxos-se 3.0. I've
created the ramdisk after startup, I've run mkfs on it and I've
mounted it but there is no free space on the device. I dont seem to
have the man pages on my distribution of lynxos-cdk for some things so
I just going off some of the examples. Heres are the commands I am
running.

rdc -a 30m /dev/rd6
mkfs -b 512 /dev/rd6
mount /dev/rd6 /mnt1

is there somthing I need todo at mkfs stage to tell it to make the
inodes free initially?

thanks,

Jeff

[Steve_S]

Try adding -v to the mkfs command to report the size of the device and
the inode table. (I don't have SE; I just have LynxOS 4, so I may not
be much help). It looks like all your steps are right. Here is what my
documentation shows as an example:

# rdc -a 2M /dev/rd1
to create a 2M byte ramdisk

# mkfs -v /dev/rd1
to create the file system on /dev/rd1

# mount /dev/rd1 /mnt

# cp /init /mnt
copy wanted files into the file system

[agarg]

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Hi Jeff,

Use mkffs utility instead of mkfs on LynxOS-SE 3.0. It should work.

- Amit