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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: Reclaim space from unused ramdisk?
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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.