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.\" Copyright, the authors of the Linux man-pages project
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.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
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.TH ram 4 2025-05-17 "Linux man-pages (unreleased)"
.SH NAME
ram \- ram disk device
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.I ram
device is a block device to access the ram disk in raw mode.
.P
It is typically created by:
.P
.in +4n
.EX
mknod \-m 660 /dev/ram b 1 1
chown root:disk /dev/ram
.EE
.in
.SH FILES
.I /dev/ram
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR chown (1),
.BR mknod (1),
.BR mount (8)
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