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+.\" Copyright (c) 1993 Michael Haardt (michael@moria.de),
+.\" Fri Apr 2 11:32:09 MET DST 1993
+.\"
+.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+.\"
+.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 17:01:11 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
+.TH ram 4 2024-05-02 "Linux man-pages (unreleased)"
+.SH NAME
+ram \- ram disk device
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+The
+.I ram
+device is a block device to access the ram disk in raw mode.
+.P
+It is typically created by:
+.P
+.in +4n
+.EX
+mknod \-m 660 /dev/ram b 1 1
+chown root:disk /dev/ram
+.EE
+.in
+.SH FILES
+.I /dev/ram
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR chown (1),
+.BR mknod (1),
+.BR mount (8)