CentOS - Dec 2007 - How To increase RAMDISK in CENTOS 4

Hi All, 

I am using Centos4.0 and running Squid Reverse Proxy for image caching , i have
configured RAMDISK of 265 MB for one cache folder  in preproduction environment
for testing now i have upgraded RAM upto 8GB, but when i change ramdisk_size
parameter in grub.conf  and rebooted the server when i tried to format and mount
it doesn't work. Can anyone please help me how to increase RAMDISK size upto
6GB.

Thanks
Abhishek







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Don't use the ram disk feature it was really intended for initrd images.

Use tmpfs instead which you can configure on the 'mount'.

-Ross


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Subject: [CentOS] How To increase RAMDISK in CENTOS 4

Hi All, 

I am using Centos4.0 and running Squid Reverse Proxy for image caching , i have
configured RAMDISK of 265 MB for one cache folder  in preproduction environment
for testing now i have upgraded RAM upto 8GB, but when i change ramdisk_size
parameter in grub.conf  and rebooted the server when i tried to format and mount
it doesn't work. Can anyone please help me how to increase RAMDISK size upto
6GB.

Thanks
Abhishek




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