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Shell script to mount a disk on RAM with a specific name and size on Mac OS X
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#!/bin/bash | |
# | |
# Create a virtual disk on RAM with a given name and size. | |
# To remove it, just unmount it in Finder. | |
# | |
# Usage: ram.sh <name> <size in MB> | |
# | |
function usage() { | |
echo "$0 <name> <size in MB>" | |
} | |
if [[ $# -lt 2 ]]; then | |
usage | |
exit 1 | |
fi | |
if ! [[ $2 =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]]; then | |
echo "size must be a numeric value" >&2 | |
exit 1 | |
fi | |
name=$1 | |
size=$2 | |
device=$(hdiutil attach -nobrowse -nomount ram://$(($size*2048))) | |
diskutil erasevolume HFS+ $name $device |
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