[Q] /dev/ram I/O Error

Nicholas J. Leon (nicholas@binary9.net)
Tue, 11 Jun 1996 10:32:40 -0400 (EDT)


Should this be? :

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Script started on Tue Jun 11 10:30:29 1996
> mke2fs /dev/ram 4096
mke2fs 0.5b, 11-Mar-95 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
1024 inodes, 4096 blocks
204 blocks (4.98%) reserved for the super user
First data block=1
Block size=1024 (log=0)
Fragment size=1024 (log=0)
1 block group
8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group
1024 inodes per group

Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
> dd if=/dev/ram of=/dev/null bs=1024
dd: /dev/ram: I/O error
4096+0 records in
4096+0 records out
> exit

Script done on Tue Jun 11 10:30:54 1996
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Why the I/O error? Or am I missing something here ...

N!
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