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Commit f5abc8e7 authored by Fabian Frederick's avatar Fabian Frederick Committed by Linus Torvalds
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Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt: updates 



- ramdisk_blocksize doesn't exist anymore

- Module parameters added to documentation

Signed-off-by: default avatarFabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Acked-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent c1083732

Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt

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rescue floppy disk.





2) Kernel Command Line Parameters

2) Parameters

---------------------------------



2a) Kernel Command Line Parameters



	ramdisk_size=N

	==============



This parameter tells the RAM disk driver to set up RAM disks of N k size.  The

default is 4096 (4 MB) (8192 (8 MB) on S390).

default is 4096 (4 MB).



2b) Module parameters



	ramdisk_blocksize=N

	===================

	rd_nr

	=====

	/dev/ramX devices created.



This parameter tells the RAM disk driver how many bytes to use per block.  The

default is 1024 (BLOCK_SIZE).

	max_part

	========

	Maximum partition number.



	rd_size

	=======

	See ramdisk_size.



3) Using "rdev -r"

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