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home | helpLOADRAMDISK(8) System Manager's Manual LOADRAMDISK(8) NAME loadramdisk - copy an image of a file system to /dev/ram SYNOPSIS loadramdisk file DESCRIPTION Loadramdisk copies the content of a device or a file containing an image of a file system, specified by the file argument, to /dev/ram. This way the source is preserved untouched, and can resides on a read- only media like a CD, while the copied-to version may be mounted as read-write file system and used as root device. NOTES A ramdisk can be initialized only once. SEE ALSO dev(4), init(8), mount(2), newroot(8). AUTHOR Loadramdisk.c was written by Philip Homburg. February 1st, 2010 LOADRAMDISK(8)
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