NAME

mount_tmpfs — mount a tmpfs volume

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

The mount_tmpfs command creates a new tmpfs (in-memory file system) volume and attaches it to the global file system namespace at the location indicated by directory.

The options are as follows:

-o options

Options passed to mount(2) are specified with the -o option followed by a comma separated string of options. See the mount(8) man page for possible options and their meanings.

-i

Make the volume case-insensitive (default).

-e

Make the volume case-sensitive.

-n max_nodes

Set the maximum number of nodes available to the file system to max_nodes.

-s max_mem_size

Set the maximum total file system size to max_mem_size bytes, unless suffixed with one of k, m, g, or t, which denote kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte and terabyte respectively.

DIAGNOSTICS

The mount_tmpfs utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

SEE ALSO

mount(2), unmount(2), mount(8), umount(8)

HISTORY

The mount_tmpfs utility first appeared in macOS 11.