From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261340AbVGCCSM (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Jul 2005 22:18:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261342AbVGCCSL (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Jul 2005 22:18:11 -0400 Received: from host.atlantavirtual.com ([209.239.35.47]:15746 "EHLO host.atlantavirtual.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261340AbVGCCSH (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Jul 2005 22:18:07 -0400 Subject: Re: ramdisk max size limitation? From: kernel Reply-To: kernel@crazytrain.com To: Phy Prabab Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20050703011524.1581.qmail@web51802.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20050703011524.1581.qmail@web51802.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1120357030.3566.1.camel@crazytrain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 22:17:11 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Phy, mount tmpfs -t tmpfs -o size=600m /mnt/here Works for me on my 2.4.29 kernel. 600MB tmpfs. regards, fd On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 21:15, Phy Prabab wrote: > Hello, > > Is there a limitation to the max size you can create a > ramdisk? I have a 1.5G system and I am trying to > allocate a 1G RAM disk, yet no matter what I do, the > max I can create and use is 512M. Is there a way to > get over this limitation? > > Thanks for the help! > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >