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Altera_Forum
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20 years ago

uClinux ramdisk

Hello, I am new to linux, so hopefully someone else will know how to do this, but: I was wondering how do you increase the size of the ramdisks that uClinux initalizes. I am setting the /home/ftp...
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20 years ago

To get a RAMdisk of 4MBytes (default kernel ramdisk size):

/sbin/mke2fs -q -m0

/bin/mount -t ext2 /dev/ram0 <mount-dir>

+ create the necessary directory structure.

Put this in /etc/rc.