In article , Jim Lesurf
wrote:
sudo mkdir -p /mnt/tmp

followed by

sudo -t tmpfs -o size=20m tmpfs /mnt/tmp

to create a temporary 20meg 'ram disc' mounted at /mnt/tmp

I'm now trying to determine what I'd add to fstab to get a ramdisc. I've
looked on the web and found various *different* listed fstab lines for
this, so I'm unclear what the line should say.

e.g.

If I first do a

sudo mkdir -p /mnt/ramdisc

Do I add to fstab

tmpfs /mnt/ramdisc tempfs size=XXX 0 0

or

tmpfs /mnt/ramdisc rw 0 0

or

ramdisc /mnt/ramdisc tmpfs mode=1777,size=XXX

or

tmpfs /mnt/ramdisc tmpfs size=XXX,mode=0777 0 0

I've see all these suggested on webpages. Some look like synonyms with
different settings, but others don't.

So what's the recipy?

What I'd like is a ramdisc at /mnt/ramdisc which is of modest size and I
can use for temporary files.

Jim

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