# How To Create A RAMDISK On Ubuntu / Linux
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In this tutorial I will show you how to create a RAMDISK on Ubuntu/Linux. A RAMDISK is basically using your RAM to store files and is much quicker that storing them on your hard drive. You should only use a certain percentage of your available RAM because this could take away from your performance.

## Creating A RAMDISK On Ubuntu/Linux
To create a RAMDISK first you have to make a folder that will somewhat act as an alias to browse and use the space you will be mounting and dedicating to this RAMDISK. You can do this by opening a terminal (CTRL+ALT+T) and running the command below.

`sudo mkdir -p /media/<FOLDERNAME>`

After this you will need to mount the folder to a temporary storage area on that uses RAM instead of hard drive space. You can do this with the following command, you should edit the grey to what you need.

`sudo mount -t tmpfs -o size=2048M tmpfs /media/<FOLDERNAME>`

After this you can navigate to your RAMDISK by going to the folder you created located in /media/. If you want to unmount the RAMDISK then you just need to enter this next command and it should be done.

`sudo umount /media/<FOLDERNAME>`

I hope this helped you create a RAMDISK on Ubuntu/Linux, please don’t forget to share/like/plus-one as it helps the blog out a lot. Thank you!