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From: dbielik@suna.mqcc.mq.oz.au (Danny Bielik)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Making Large RAM Drives
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Date: 7 May 91 09:07:21 GMT
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We have 1.2Mb floppy startup disks for our OS class whereby what is on the
disk is put into a RAM Shadow, so that there is a small amount of RAM Disk
space left in /tmp - exactly equal to the spare space on the disk.

Now, I have heard that you can mkfs -T to make a file system larger than
the actual disk size, for people with enough memory.  I tried this and
when I tried to copy the files over to that new disk, the damn thing
bombed out.

Is there a way of making a root disk with files on it which will also leave
me with a 1Mb RAM disk?


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* Danny Bielik                                                                *
* dbielik@suna.mqcc.mq.oz.au                                                  *
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