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mount-ramdisk.sh
#! /bin/sh
if `mount | grep " on /opt/cache" >/dev/null` ; then
echo "$0: Already mounted" >&2
exit 0
fi
SIZE=582715
if ! disk=`hdiutil attach -nomount ram://$SIZE` ; then
exit 1
fi
# Trim trailing spaces
disk=`echo $disk`
echo "New RAMdisk is $disk" >&2
diskUtil partitionDisk $disk 1 GPTFormat "hfsx" "%noformat%" "100%"
newfs_hfs -v 'Cache' -U 0 -G 0 -M 0777 ${disk}s1
sudo /sbin/mount -t hfs -o nobrowse ${disk}s1 /opt/cache
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