Create ram disk mount to specific folder in OSX

Question

I am using a command like so to create a ram disk:

diskutil erasevolume HFS+ "ram disk" `hdiutil attach -nomount ram://307200`

This works succesfully, and I get a /Volumes/ram disk mounted on my system that I can use that is mounted from /dev/disk5 or some such place.

I would like to be able to control where this goes, to be able to mount to /tmp/my_dir or where-ever. I have tried many combinations of changing parameters in hdiutil and diskutil without success. What is the right way to do this?

Answer 1

#!/bin/sh
ramfs_size_mb=2100
mount_point=/tmp/rdisk

mkramdisk() {
  ramfs_size_sectors=$((${ramfs_size_mb}*1024*1024/512))
  ramdisk_dev=`hdid -nomount ram://${ramfs_size_sectors}`

  newfs_hfs -v 'ram disk' ${ramdisk_dev}
  mkdir -p ${mount_point}
  mount -o noatime -t hfs ${ramdisk_dev} ${mount_point}

  echo "remove with:"
  echo "umount ${mount_point}"
  echo "diskutil eject ${ramdisk_dev}"
}