{"id":17222,"date":"2018-12-09T16:31:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T22:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17222"},"modified":"2018-12-09T16:31:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T22:31:22","slug":"creating-a-ram-disk-on-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17222","title":{"rendered":"Creating a ram disk on Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The best way to create a ram disk on linux is tmpfs. It&#8217;s a filesystem living in ram, so there is no need for ext2. You can create a tmpfs of 16Gb size with:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>mount -o size=16G -t tmpfs none \/mnt\/tmpfs<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/unix.stackexchange.com\/questions\/66329\/creating-a-ram-disk-on-linux\">ramdisk &#8211; Creating a ram disk on Linux &#8211; Unix &amp; Linux Stack Exchange<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best way to create a ram disk on linux is tmpfs. It&#8217;s a filesystem living in ram, so there is no need for ext2. You can create a tmpfs of 16Gb size with: mount -o size=16G -t tmpfs none &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17222\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[299,28],"class_list":["post-17222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-operating-systems","tag-dram","tag-linux-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17223,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17222\/revisions\/17223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}