.TH LOADRAMDISK 8 "February 1st, 2010"

.SH NAME

loadramdisk \- copy an image of a file system to /dev/ram

.SH SYNOPSIS

.B loadramdisk

.IR file

.SH DESCRIPTION

.B Loadramdisk

copies the content of a device or a file containing an image of a file system,

specified by the

.I file

argument, to \fB/dev/ram\fP. This way the source is preserved

untouched, and can resides on a read-only media like a CD, while the copied-to

version may be mounted as read-write file system and used as root device.

.SH NOTES

A ramdisk can be initialized only once.

.SH "SEE ALSO"

.BR dev (4),

.BR init (8),

.BR mount (2),

.BR newroot (8).

.SH AUTHOR

.I Loadramdisk.c

was written by Philip Homburg.

.\" This manual page by A. Leca, last revised 2010-02-01.