Hello All,

Below are a list of steps that I take when I need to create a Ramdisk to start Working with encrypted and unencrypted data. I do not want the unencrypted or encrypted data to be written to my hard drive.

My question is can you help me with turning the listed steps below into a working Bash Script so that I can call the script when needed instead of typing all these commands.

Thank you for taking the time to help.

Steps:

I review what has already been created
ls -l /dev/ram*

I find out what size the ramdisks are
[root]# dmesg | grep RAMDISK

I then Format the ramdisk
[root]# mke2fs -m 0 /dev/ram0

I Create a mount point and mount the ramdisk
[root]# mkdir /mnt/skunk
[root]# mount /dev/ram0 /mnt/skunk

I then verify the new ramdisk mount
[root]# mount | grep ram0
[root]# df -h | grep ram0

To make sure everything is ok with the new ramdisk I get a detailed look at the new ramdisk with this command:
[root]# tune2fs -l /dev/ram0

In my case, I need the user "skunk" to be able to read and write to the ramdisk, so I must change the ownership and permissions of the /mnt/skunk directory:
[root]# chown skunk:root /mnt/skunk
[root]# chmod 0770 /mnt/skunk
[root]# ls -ald /mnt/skunk

I then use the ramdisk

once done I unmount the ramdisk
[root]# umount -v /mnt/skunk

Why don't you put those into a script and try it.
Come back to us when/if you get stuck.
One tip: after each cmd, check the val of env var $? . Zero is good, anything else is bad.

Per your request chrism01
I am only able to run this script as root but that is okay is there any way to stream line this script or make it better please make changes as needed?

<---Code Begin--->
#!/bin/bash
##########################################################################
# Title : ramdisk.sh - Creates a Hard drive in system memory (RAM)
# Author : Jamtech Janus@cyberspace.org
# Date : 2007-10-08
# Requires : Root account needed to run this script
# Category : Open
# Version. : Ramdisk 1.0 10/08/2007
##########################################################################
# Description:
#
# Permission is granted to reproduce and distribute this program
# with the following conditions:
# 1) This copyright notice and the author identification below
# must be left intact in the program and in any copies.
# 2) Any modifications to the program must be clearly identified
# in the source file.
#
# Modifications:
#
##########################################################################
# ==> Comments added by author ==>
#
# Lists Ram devices and to see what the ramdisks are
ls -l /dev/ram*
dmesg | grep RAMDISK
# Format the ramdisk
mke2fs -m 0 /dev/ram0
# Create a mount point and mount the ramdisk I named it skunk but you can choose to name the directory what you want.
mkdir /mnt/skunk
mount /dev/ram0 /mnt/skunk
# Verify the new ramdisk mount
mount | grep ram0
df -h | grep ram0
# Verfiy the ramdisk with full details
tune2fs -l /dev/ram0
# Give user "skunk" rights to read and write to the ramdisk, You can use any user that has an account on your system. just change the user name
chown Skunk:root /mnt/skunk
chmod 0770 /mnt/skunk
# Clears the screen
clear
# Change into the Mount Directory and list files and folders
cd /mnt/
ls -s
<---Code End--->

Well, as I pointed out, after each cmd, you should really check to see if they succeeded ie check the '$?' env var: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/exit-status.html

You don't use the results of the 1st 2 lines; why? (debugging info only?)
Please use code tags [ code ] your code here [ /code ] to show your code here.

Try running your prog and see if it works.

chrism01
Thanks for the help.
I am off to convert another a few more of my tasks into scripts