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Old 09-11-2006, 05:23 AM   #1
Nishant Desai
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Error in mount command


Dear All,

i want to mount the RAMdisk and want to include my existing RAMdisk with some other files, though i am able to unmount it and to gunzip, and after extracting the file even i had add my aplication also, then after i have follow this procedure to mount the file

" dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram bs=1k count=2048
mke2fs -vm0 /dev/ram 2048
mount -t ext2 /dev/ram /mnt/ramdisk
cp -av preparedfiles /mnt/ramdisk
umount /mnt/ramdisk
dd if=/dev/ram bs=1k count=2048 | gzip -v9 ramdisk . gz",

i had execute all the commands successfully except last one and it shows me error that ramdisk.gz, no such fiile or directory, can you please explain me what is the problem? or what i am doing wrong? please help me.

Thanks in Advance,
Nishant Desai
 
Old 09-12-2006, 05:30 AM   #2
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I think you want you final statement to be:

Code:
dd if=/dev/ram bs=1k count=2048 | gzip -v9 > ramdisk.gz
It was (I believe) interpreting your file name as the file that it should zip. (I am trusting that the rest of your commands make sense. I have never done things that way before.)
 
Old 09-13-2006, 04:10 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by blackhole54
I think you want you final statement to be:

Code:
dd if=/dev/ram bs=1k count=2048 | gzip -v9 > ramdisk.gz
It was (I believe) interpreting your file name as the file that it should zip. (I am trusting that the rest of your commands make sense. I have never done things that way before.)
Dear Sir,
Exactly, the thing i was missing was that arrow, actually i had try with that, but i have specified the wrong filenames and it leads to problems, then i have tried with

dd if=/dev/ram bs=1k count=2048 | gzip -v9 > /mnt/ramdisk.gz, where my file lies in the Linux and that works for me, thanks anyways for the wonderful support.

Thanks,
Nishant
 
  


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