From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: akihana@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Reclaim space from unused ramdisk?
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 00:55:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050727005557.6e451f4c.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0507270951530.30941@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> wrote:
>
> >> }
> >>
> >
> >hmm, yes. That's a special-case in the ramdisk driver.
> >
> >The command `blockdev --flushbufs /dev/ram0' should have the same effect.
>
> Interesting. Command not found, here. URL?
>
It ships with util-linux. Weird that a distro would omit it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-27 7:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-26 22:16 Mike Mohr
2005-07-26 23:21 ` Marc Ballarin
2005-07-27 6:25 ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-07-27 6:56 ` Andrew Morton
2005-07-27 7:52 ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-07-27 7:55 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-07-27 8:28 ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-07-27 9:04 ` Jan Engelhardt
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