DZone Snippets: ram code http://snippets.dzone.com/posts Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:23:11 GMT DZone Snippets: ram code How to create a RAM disk on OS X http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/1808 32768 = size in sectors (16MB in this case, a sector is 512 bytes) <br /> <br /><code> <br />$ hdid -nomount ram://32768 <br />/dev/disk1 <br />$ newfs_hfs /dev/disk1 <br />$ mkdir /tmp/ramdisk1 <br />$ mount -t hfs /dev/disk1 /tmp/ramdisk1 <br /></code> <br /> <br />To unmount: <br /> <br /><code> <br />hdiutil detach /dev/disk1 <br /></code> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 21:25:22 GMT http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/1808 peter (Peter Cooperx)