Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 May 2005 20:53:52 +0800 | From | Christopher Chan <> | Subject | Re: ext3 issue.. |
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Hi Davy.
On 5/3/05, Davy Durham <pubaddr2@davyandbeth.com> wrote: > I was thinking about delving into this problem a bit. I don't have any > unpartitioned free space on my physical drive. I was going to ask if > it's possible to create a virtual device in RAM or in a file that I > could then create an ext3 file system on for testing.. I'm at least > trying to recreate the situation of the negative diskspace usage.. then > maybe try to debug ext3 a bit. At first I thought "oh RAMFS!", then "no > wait, I couldn't create an EXT3 file system that way".. I need a > non-physical (block? or character?) device.
It is called a ram disk. You might want to pass options to the kernel to increase the size of the ramdisk.
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