/MountRam

A linux utility that allows you to easily mount your own Ram Disk!

GNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

MountRam

A Linux Utility that allows you to easily mount your ram (Ram Disk)

By FireMario211

Version 1.0.0

How to install MountRam

  • Required Packages to build

    • build-essentials
    • gcc
    • make

  • Installation

git clone https://github.com/FireMario211/MountRam.git
cd MountRam
./configure
make
make install (May require root access)

How to use

  • --help, -h
    • Lists all available commands
  • --version, -v
    • Shows the version (1.0.0)
  • --setup, -s
    • Prompts you with questions and mounts ram
  • --mount <Name> <Size> <Path>, -M
    • Manually sets up mounting the ram
  • --umount <Path>, -u
    • Unmounts the Ram Directory (Must be mounted first)

How to mount Ram Disk

It's very simple to mount a Ram Disk using MountRam, there are 2 options you can use, --mount or --setup

Setup Method

First you will need to run mountram --setup to run the setup, and it will prompt you questions, below will be an example of what to enter:

Please insert the mount name (No spaces): rammount

Please insert the path (Ex: /mnt/ram): /mnt

Please enter in the size (Ex: 1G): 4G
Successfully mounted!

Then after that, it should set up the ram disk!

Manual Method

If you want to mount the Ram Disk quick, you can use mountram --mount, though you will need to specify the name, size, and path.

An example of using the command would be: mountram --mount rammount 4G /mnt, which will be similar to setup, without the prompts.

Unmounting the Ram Disk (Root access may be required)

If you want to unmount the Ram Disk, there are 3 ways you can unmount it.

  1. Using mountram --umount
  2. Using umount
  3. Rebooting system

For using mountram --umount, it's pretty simple, all you will have to do is just specify the path of where you mounted after, so for instance, if I mounted at /mnt, I would type mountram --umount /mnt.

For using umount, I probably won't go into detail of how to use it, as it's similar to using mountram --umount, all you will really have to do is umount /mnt, assuming you mounted from /mnt.

This project was only just an attempt to make a package, there are probably other alternatives to this, or you can simply just use mount.