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Hej August!

> I'm reading that creating a ramdisk in linux is fairly simple and a
> common feature.

# mount -t tmpfs -o size=8g none /dev/lfs

creates a 8G ramdisk mounted on /dev/lfs.

# umount -v /dev/lfs

wipes it out.

What version of busybox do you have?  That looks to be your salvation.

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

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