script to create ramdisk

etc_init.d_ramdisk (text/plain), 1.19 KB, created by Perzy Hannaman on 2002-09-03 05:30:50 UTC

#!/sbin/runscript 
# Written by delta407 ([e-mail]) 
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, v2 or later 

depend() { 
        need localmount 
} 

start() { 
        mkdir -p ${RDPATH} 
        for MP in ${RAMDISKS}; do 
                MPN=`echo ${MP} | sed -e 's/\//-/g' -e 's/^-//g' -e 's/-$//g'` 

                ebegin "Starting ramdisk on ${MP}" 

                TARCMD="tar xpf${RDTAROPTS} ${RDPATH}/${MPN}${RDTARSUFFIX}" 
                [[ -e ${RDPATH}/${MPN}${RDTARSUFFIX} ]] || TARCMD="true" 

                touch ${RDPATH}/${MPN}${RDTARSUFFIX} 
                mount ${MPN} ${MP} -t tmpfs && \ 
                        cd ${MP}/.. && \ 
                        `${TARCMD}` 
                eend $? 
        done 
} 

stop() { 
        mkdir -p ${RDPATH} 
        for MP in ${RAMDISKS}; do 
                MPN=`echo ${MP} | sed -e 's/\//-/g' -e 's/^-//g' -e 's/-$//g'` 
                ebegin "Stopping ramdisk on ${MP}" 
                cd ${MP}/.. && \ 
                        tar cpf${RDTAROPTS} ${RDPATH}/${MPN}${RDTARSUFFIX} `basename ${MP}` && \ 
                        umount ${MP} 
                eend $? 
        done 
}