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Create ramdisk on macOS #macOS
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macOS_ramdisk.sh
#Size of RAM disk desired(MB) * 2048 = amount to specify
#Using the above example, that would be:
#eg 2GB 2048 * 2048 = 4194304
diskutil erasevolume HFS+ 'RAMDisk' `hdiutil attach -nomount ram://524288` # 0.5GB
diskutil erasevolume HFS+ 'RAMDisk' `hdiutil attach -nomount ram://4194304` # 2GB
diskutil erasevolume HFS+ 'RAMDisk' `hdiutil attach -nomount ram://8388608` # 4GB
diskutil erasevolume HFS+ 'RAMDisk' `hdiutil attach -nomount ram://12582912` # 6GB
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