#!/bin/bash -ex MNT=/mnt/ext4-ramdisk if mountpoint $MNT ; then exit 1 fi IMG=$(mktemp /tmp/ext4-ramdisk-XXX.img) dd if=/dev/zero of=$IMG bs=1M count=1030 mkfs.ext4 -q $IMG mkdir -p $MNT mount $IMG $MNT chmod 777 $MNT rm $IMG # unlink the file, it will be deleted once the fs is unmounted