loadramdisk - copy an image of a file system to /dev/ram loadramdisk file Loadramdisk copies the content of a device or a file containing an image of a file system, specified by the file argument, to /dev/ram. This way the source is preserved untouched, and can resides on a read-only media like a CD, while the copied-to version may be mounted as read-write file system and used as root device. A ramdisk can be initialized only once. dev (4), init (8), mount (2), newroot (8). Loadramdisk.c was written by Philip Homburg. This manual page by A. Leca, last revised 2010-02-01.