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diff --git a/man7/bootparam.7 b/man7/bootparam.7 index ae57ce379a..0698c64fda 100644 --- a/man7/bootparam.7 +++ b/man7/bootparam.7 @@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ will clear the counters. .BR CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM .) In general it is a bad idea to use a ramdisk under Linux\(emthe system will use available memory more efficiently itself. -But while booting (or while constructing boot floppies) +But while booting, it is often useful to load the floppy contents into a ramdisk. One might also have a system in which first @@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ Earlier, the memory was allocated statically, and there was a 'ramdisk=N' parameter to tell its size. (This could also be set in the kernel image at compile time.) These days ram disks use the buffer cache, and grow dynamically. -For a lot of information in conjunction with the new ramdisk +For a lot of information on the current ramdisk setup, see the kernel source file .IR Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt .RI ( Documentation/ramdisk.txt |