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Feb 08, 2019 What’s a RAM Disk? To create a RAM disk, you would install a third-party program that creates a virtual drive in Windows. This program would reserve a section of your RAM — so if you had 4 GB of files in your RAM disk, the disk would take up 4 GB of RAM. All the files on your disk would be stored in your RAM. RAMDisk Lite is perfect if you don't have a lot of RAM in your PC or laptop. Get all the same features and functions found in the Extreme version and create RAMDisk drives up to 12 GB. Option to upgrade to 64 GB in the future. For personal use only. A RAM disk is a hard drive made up of your computer’s RAM. It can’t save data permanently, but it’s incredibly fast. If you want to try it out, you can create a RAM disk with free software and without a single computer upgrade. This article will walk through how you can set up and use a RAM disk on Windows 10. Using ImDisk Toolkit. For simpler users, more specifically, Mac users, there is iRamDisk, an app worth $1.99 in the Mac App Store which allows you to create virtual RAM disks and mount them as regular drives. Before you create a RAM disk, you should know that it is volatile memory. Create a folder to use as a mount point for your RAM disk. Mkdir /mnt/ramdisk. Then use the mount command to create a RAM disk. Mount -t TYPE -o size=SIZE FSTYPE MOUNTPOINT Substitute the following attirbutes for your own values: TYPE is the type of RAM disk to use; either tmpfs or ramfs. SIZE is the size to use for the file system.

This is a list of Linux distributions that can be run entirely from a computer's RAM. That ability allows them to be very fast, since reading and writing data from/to RAM is much faster than on a hard disk drive or solid state drive. Many of these operating systems will load from a removable media such as a Live CD or a Live USB stick. A 'frugal' install can also often be completed, allowing loading from a hard disk drive instead.

Iramdisk 3 5 – Create A Ram Disk In Linux

This feature is implemented in live-initramfs and allows the user to run a live distro that does not run from ram by default by adding toram to the kernel boot parameters.[1]

Additionally some distributions can be configured to run from RAM, such as Ubuntu using the toram option included in the Casper scripts.[2]

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Iramdisk 3 5 – Create A Ram Disk Download

Linux distributions that run from RAM
DistributionBased onRAM requiredinstallation drive/required size
Alpine Linux[3][4]Independentbase system uses less than 64 MBCD – USB flash drive – HDD
antiX Linux[5]Debian256 MBCD – USB flash drive – HDD
AUSTRUMI[6]Slackwareless than 100 MBCD – DVD – USB flash drive
CoreOS[7]Independent2048 MBUSB flash drive – HDD
Damn Small Linux[8]Knoppix128 MBCD – USB flash drive – HDD
Grml[9]Debian256 MB (required), 512 MB (or more, recommended)CD – USB flash drive – HDD
Kanotix[10]Debian & Knoppix1024 MBCD – DVD – USB flash drive – HDD
Knoppix[11]Debian1024 MBCD – DVD – USB flash drive – HDD
Lightweight Portable Security (LPS)[12] currently known as Trusted End Node Security (TENS)[13]Thinstation1024 MB (basic), 1.5 GB (deluxe)CD – USB flash drive
Macpup[14]Puppy164 MBCD – USB flash drive
Nanolinux[15]Tiny Core Linux64 MB[16]CD – DVD – USB flash drive – HDD
Parted Magic[17]Independent175 MB – 312 MBCD – DVD – USB flash drive – HDD
PCLinuxOS[18]Mandriva1024 MBCD – DVD – USB flash drive – HDD
Porteus[19]Slackware512 MBCD – DVD – USB flash drive
Puppy Linux[20]Independent64 MB (required), 256 MB (recommended)[21]CD – DVD – USB flash drive – HDD
Slax[22]Debian512 MBCD – DVD – USB flash drive – HDD
SliTaz[23]Independent192 MB (48 MB for base)CD – DVD – USB flash drive – HDD[24] – Floppy disk[25]
SystemRescueCD[26]Arch Linux400 MBCD – DVD – USB flash drive – HDD
Tails[27]Debian2048 MB (recommended)DVD – USB flash drive – Secure Digital
Tin Hat Linux[28]Hardened Gentoo4096 MB
Tiny SliTaz[29]SliTaz4 MBCD – DVD – USB flash drive – HDD – Floppy disk
Tiny Core Linux[30]Independent46 MB[30]HDD – CD

See also[edit]

  • tmpfs; by mounting a tmpfs and running files that are placed on this, files and programs can be run from RAM, even on Linux distros that do not run completely in RAM
  • Clustered file system; network file systems are another way to avoid needing to use a (slow) harddisk (at least faster if using a E-IDE harddisk)
  • initrd ('initial ramdisk'), a scheme for loading a temporary root file system into memory in the boot process of the Linux kernel.
  • SYSLINUX, a suite of lightweight IBM PC MBR bootloaders for starting up computers with the Linux kernel.
  • Windows PE, a non-Linux operating system that can also be run from RAM.

References[edit]

  1. ^'Re: Debian live entirely in RAM?'.
  2. ^Ubuntu Wiki (13 November 2014). 'Booting Ubuntu To RAM'. Retrieved 18 July 2011.
  3. ^'Alpine Linux 2 review - LinuxBSDos.com'. linuxbsdos.com. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  4. ^'Alpine Linux:Overview – Alpine Linux'. alpinelinux.org. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  5. ^'The Most Extensive Live-usb on the Planet!'. antixlinux.com. antixlinux. Retrieved 30 April 2018.
  6. ^'AUSTRUMI'. latgola.lv. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  7. ^'Boot on Bare Metal with PXE'. coreos.com. Retrieved 17 January 2018.
  8. ^'DSL information'. damnsmalllinux.org. Archived from the original on 8 January 2017. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  9. ^[www.grml.org/team/], the Grml team. 'grml.org – Debian Live system / CD for sysadmins and texttool-users'. grml.org. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  10. ^kanotix.com. 'kanotix.com :: GNU Linux Live system based on Debian, optimized for HD-install and high performance'. kanotix.com. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  11. ^'Knoppix Cheatcodes – USB Pen Drive Linux'. pendrivelinux.com. 30 January 2007. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  12. ^LPS Main PageArchived 2 September 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  13. ^'Trusted End Node Security'. Distrowatch.com. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
  14. ^'Macpup – The beauty of Linux'. macpup.org. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  15. ^'Nanolinux Download'. softpedia.com. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  16. ^'Nanolinux'. sourceforge.net. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  17. ^Parted Magic – About
  18. ^'PCLinuxOS Magazine – HTML'. pclosmag.com. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  19. ^'Cheatcodes – what they are and how to use them – Porteus – Portable Linux'. porteus.org. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  20. ^DistroWatch. 'DistroWatch.com: Puppy Linux'. distrowatch.com. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  21. ^'PuppyLinux: MinimumSystemRequirements'. Puppy Linux Wiki. Retrieved 13 February 2014.
  22. ^'Documentation – Slax Linux'. Archived from the original on 30 March 2014. Retrieved 5 July 2013.
  23. ^'SliTaz'. slitaz.org. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  24. ^'SliTaz installation'. slitaz.org. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  25. ^Contributors, SliTaz. 'SliTaz Boot Floppies'. slitaz.org. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  26. ^'SystemRescueCd'. sysresccd.org. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  27. ^'Tails – Privacy for anyone anywhere'. boum.org. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  28. ^'Tin Hat - opensource.dyc.edu'. dyc.edu. Archived from the original on 17 October 2016. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  29. ^Contributors, SliTaz. 'Tiny SliTaz – Builder'. slitaz.org. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  30. ^ abShingledecker, Robert. 'Frequently Asked Questions'. Tiny Core Linux Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ). Retrieved 28 September 2016. An absolute minimum of RAM is 46mb. TC won't boot with anything less. ... Microcore runs with 28mb of ram.

External links[edit]

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  • Using a liveCD as your Linux Desktop at the Wayback Machine (archived 7 February 2013)
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