ramdiskadm(1M)						  System Administration Commands					    ramdiskadm(1M)

NAME

       ramdiskadm - administer ramdisk pseudo device

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/sbin/ramdiskadm -a name size [g | m | k | b]

       /usr/sbin/ramdiskadm -d name

       /usr/sbin/ramdiskadm

DESCRIPTION

       The ramdiskadm command administers ramdisk(7D), the ramdisk driver. Use ramdiskadm to create a new named ramdisk device, delete an existing
       named ramdisk, or list information about existing ramdisks.

       Ramdisks created using ramdiskadm are not persistent across reboots.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -a name size    Create a ramdisk named name of size size and its corresponding block and character device nodes.

		       name must be composed only of the characters a-z, A-Z, 0-9, _ (underbar), and - (hyphen), but it  must  not  begin  with  a
		       hyphen. It must be no more than 32 characters long. Ramdisk names must be unique.

		       The  size  can  be a decimal number, or, when prefixed with 0x, a hexadecimal number, and can specify the size in bytes (no
		       suffix), 512-byte blocks (suffix b), kilobytes (suffix k), megabytes (suffix m) or gigabytes (suffix g). The  size  of  the
		       ramdisk actually created might be larger than that specified, depending on the hardware implementation.

		       If the named ramdisk is successfully created, its block device path is printed on standard out.

       -d name	       Delete  an existing ramdisk of the name name. This command succeeds only when the named ramdisk is not open. The associated
		       memory is freed and the device nodes are removed.

		       You can delete only ramdisks created using ramdiskadm. It is not possible to delete a ramdisk that was created  during  the
		       boot process.

       Without	options,  ramdiskadm lists any existing ramdisks, their sizes (in decimal), and whether they can be removed by ramdiskadm (see the
       description of the -d option, above).

EXAMPLES

       Example 1 Creating a 2MB Ramdisk Named mydisk

	 # ramdiskadm -a mydisk 2m
	 /dev/ramdisk/mydisk

       Example 2 Listing All Ramdisks

	 # ramdiskadm
	 Block Device			Size  Removable
	 /dev/ramdisk/miniroot	   134217728	No
	 /dev/ramdisk/certfs	     1048576	No
	 /dev/ramdisk/mydisk	     2097152	Yes

EXIT STATUS

       ramdiskadm returns the following exit values:

       0     Successful completion.

       >0    An error occurred.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsr			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Evolving			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       attributes(5), ramdisk(7D)

NOTES

       The abilities of ramdiskadm and	the  privilege	level  of  the	person	who  uses  the	utility  are  controlled  by  the  permissions	of
       /dev/ramdiskctl.  Read  access  allows query operations, for example, listing device information. Write access is required to do any state-
       changing operations, for example, creating or deleting ramdisks.

       As shipped, /dev/ramdiskctl is owned by root, in group sys, and mode 0644, so all users can do query operations but only root  can  perform
       state-changing  operations.  An	administrator can give write access to non-privileged users, allowing them to add or delete ramdisks. How-
       ever, granting such ability entails considerable risk; such privileges should be given only to a trusted group.

SunOS 5.11							    25 Mar 2003 						    ramdiskadm(1M)