Command line switches
There is a set of command line switches that you can use to create, delete and manipulate RAM disks. These can be used as ramdisk.exe /switch:data.
Note that these commands work with a running GUI instance of RAM Disk. To create an on-demand RAM disk from a service or script, use the console version called ramdiskc.exe located in the application folder. Any RAM disk created with the console version is not visible in the GUI and disappears upon shutdown.
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/import: |
Reads RAM disk definitions previously saved to a file by the File - Export Disks command. Disk definitions read from the file are appended to the existing ones and are not mounted. | /import:"C:\John Smith\test.xml" | ||||||||||||||||||
/mount: |
Mounts an existing RAM disk. Specify all to mount all the existing RAM disks. | /mount:R /mount:all |
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/unmount: |
Unmounts an existing RAM disk. Specify all to unmount all the existing RAM disks. Specify /force before /unmount for forced unmount. | /unmount:R /force /unmount:all |
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/save: |
Saves an existing RAM disk to its associated image file. Specify all to save all the existing RAM disks. | /save:R /save:all |
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/del: |
Deletes an existing RAM disk. Specify all to delete all the existing RAM disks. | /del:R /del:all |
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/add:param=value, param=value,... |
Adds a new RAM disk based on the following case-insensitive parameters:
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/add:"letter=R, fs=FAT32, size=100M" /add:"letter=I, image=c:\image files\filename.img" /add:"type=boot, letter=B, fs=NTFS, size=50M, mount=no" |