ram(4)

ram4

Ram disk device

Overview

The ram device is a block device to access the ram disk in raw mode.

It is typically created by:

mknod -m 660 /dev/ram b 1 1
chown root:disk /dev/ram

Files

/dev/ram

Releases

19 releases since Debian 1.1 (Buzz); the text changed 14 times.

  1. 1.1–2.1
  2. 2.2
  3. 3.0
  4. 3.1
  5. 4.0
  6. 5.0
  7. 6.0
  8. 7
  9. 8
  10. 9
  11. 10
  12. 11
  13. 12
  14. 13
  15. Arch

From man-pages 6.19-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.