SDB:Create a Ramdisk

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Situation

You want to create a ramdisk on your openSUSE system.

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Procedure

Use the virtual filesystem tmpfs to do so:

mkdir /ramdisk
mount -t tmpfs none /ramdisk -o size=256m

Creates a ramdisk with a size of 256 MB mounted at /ramdisk.