RDCONFIG(8) OpenBSD System Manager's Manual RDCONFIG(8)NAMErdconfig - configure RAM disks
SYNOPSISrdconfig special_file 512-byte-blocks
DESCRIPTION
The rdconfig command configures RAM disk devices. It will associate the
special file special_file with a range of user-virtual memory allocated
by the rdconfig process itself. The rdconfig command should be run in
the background. If successful, the command will not return. Otherwise,
an error message will be printed.
To "unconfigure" the ramdisk, just kill the background rdconfig process
started earlier.
FILES
/dev/rrd??
/dev/rd??
EXAMPLES
# rdconfig /dev/rd0a 2048 &
Configures the RAM disk rd0a with one megabyte of user-space memory.
SEE ALSOmount(8), swapon(8), umount(8)BUGS
The special device will become inoperative if the rdconfig process is
killed while the special device is open.
OpenBSD 4.9 May 31, 2007 OpenBSD 4.9