Hi Roy! :-)

 RJT> I used to wonder about that too (The default Slackware install does 
 RJT> something similar),  but they don't _use_ all that much space.  In 
 RJT> fact they don't use hardly any space at all,  until such point as 
 RJT> some software or other wants some room to work with...
It's just a kernel boot message that appears when ramdisk support is
compiled into the kernel. You can then at maximum have 16 ramdisks at once.
If you compile ramdisk support as a module, the number can be influenced by
a module parameter (if I remember correctly, that is). No space is actually
allocated unless the ramdisk is used (read or write).

Ciao
Pascal

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