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Title Create a ramdisk in QNX4.
Ref. No. QNX.000009347
Category(ies) Filesystem
Issue How do I create a ramdisk using QNX4.24?

Solution If you are booting from disk, then you need to specify the -r <ramdisk_sz> option to Fsys in your boot image.
Fsys -r 4096 (minimum)

This creates an entry in the namespace called /dev/ram when the machine boots.

Then in your /etc/config/sysinit.<node> file you need to initialize the ramdisk:

dinit /dev/ram

Then mount the ramdisk:

mount /dev/ram  /ram