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Easily create a ramdisk on any Linux system. Example: ./mkramdisk.sh 1g /mnt/ramdisk
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mkramdisk.sh
#!/bin/sh
export invokingUser=$(whoami)
echo "Usage: ./mkramdisk.sh <disk_size_bytes> <ramdisk_mountpoint>"
echo "Example: ./mkramdisk.sh 1G /mnt/ramdisk"
sudo mkdir -p $2
sudo chown -R $invokingUser:$invokingUser $2
sudo mount -t tmpfs -o size=$1 tmpfs $2
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