Re: ramdisk max size limitation?

[Phy Prabab]

Yeah, I like tmpfs, but I can not export tmpfs.


Thanks for the help!



--- kernel <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Phy,
> 
> mount tmpfs -t tmpfs -o size=600m /mnt/here
> 
> 
> Works for me on my 2.4.29 kernel.  600MB tmpfs.
> 
> 
> regards,
> 
> fd
> 
> On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 21:15, Phy Prabab wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Is there a limitation to the max size you can
> create a
> > ramdisk?  I have a 1.5G system and I am trying to
> > allocate a 1G RAM disk, yet no matter what I do,
> the
> > max I can create and use is 512M.  Is there a way
> to
> > get over this limitation?
> > 
> > Thanks for the help!
> > 
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