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authorFabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>2014-01-23 18:55:27 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-01-23 19:37:01 -0500
commitf5abc8e75815fc6e8f4635d2c011315d132a32cf (patch)
treecaf1a4a179d440e187eac41f5a1db3d048a2e25a
parentc1083732908f233c5234a5c8765347602e83630c (diff)
Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt: updates
- ramdisk_blocksize doesn't exist anymore - Module parameters added to documentation Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt b/Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt
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@@ -36,21 +36,30 @@ allowing one to squeeze more programs onto an average installation or
36rescue floppy disk. 36rescue floppy disk.
37 37
38 38
392) Kernel Command Line Parameters 392) Parameters
40--------------------------------- 40---------------------------------
41 41
422a) Kernel Command Line Parameters
43
42 ramdisk_size=N 44 ramdisk_size=N
43 ============== 45 ==============
44 46
45This parameter tells the RAM disk driver to set up RAM disks of N k size. The 47This parameter tells the RAM disk driver to set up RAM disks of N k size. The
46default is 4096 (4 MB) (8192 (8 MB) on S390). 48default is 4096 (4 MB).
49
502b) Module parameters
47 51
48 ramdisk_blocksize=N 52 rd_nr
49 =================== 53 =====
54 /dev/ramX devices created.
50 55
51This parameter tells the RAM disk driver how many bytes to use per block. The 56 max_part
52default is 1024 (BLOCK_SIZE). 57 ========
58 Maximum partition number.
53 59
60 rd_size
61 =======
62 See ramdisk_size.
54 63
553) Using "rdev -r" 643) Using "rdev -r"
56------------------ 65------------------