Commit f5abc8e7 authored by Fabian Frederick's avatar Fabian Frederick Committed by Linus Torvalds

Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt: updates

- ramdisk_blocksize doesn't exist anymore

- Module parameters added to documentation
Signed-off-by: default avatarFabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Acked-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent c1083732
......@@ -36,21 +36,30 @@ allowing one to squeeze more programs onto an average installation or
rescue floppy disk.
2) Kernel Command Line Parameters
2) Parameters
---------------------------------
2a) Kernel Command Line Parameters
ramdisk_size=N
==============
This parameter tells the RAM disk driver to set up RAM disks of N k size. The
default is 4096 (4 MB) (8192 (8 MB) on S390).
default is 4096 (4 MB).
2b) Module parameters
ramdisk_blocksize=N
===================
rd_nr
=====
/dev/ramX devices created.
This parameter tells the RAM disk driver how many bytes to use per block. The
default is 1024 (BLOCK_SIZE).
max_part
========
Maximum partition number.
rd_size
=======
See ramdisk_size.
3) Using "rdev -r"
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