Re: [Fwd: problem in creating ram-disk]

[Russell King - ARM Linux Admin]

Nandana writes:
> Hi,
> I am trying to create a ramdisk using following commands.
> 
> dd if=/dev/zero of=initrd.img  bs=1k  count=<6144>
> mke2fs -i 1024 -b 1024 -m 5 -F -v initrd.img
> 
> But the problem is the device size get created is always  around  1Mb less than the
> requested size. (if I  dd with count = 6144,  the size of the device is 5.2 Mb ).
> But I notice that your ramdisk has 5.8Mb for the same size image.
> Could you please tell what are the parameters you use.

Have you tried increasing the block size?
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