Hello Dear, I hope you are doing well. For a business application, I am looking to run the entire root filesystem from RAM (RAMFS) on Jetson AGX Orin (32 GB and 64 GB variants) using JetPack 6.2. The goal is to load the complete rootfs into RAM during boot and operate the system fully from memory…

This may not be particularly useful to you, but some details related to this would be: A RAM rootfs would not support the same permission system if it is from the initrd. This could cause issues for security. A loopback mounted block of RAM which is formatted as ext4 would have the complete permis…

Full Root Filesystem from RAM (RAMFS) on Jetson AGX Orin with JetPack 6.2

Robotics & Edge Computing Jetson Systems Jetson AGX Orin

DaneLLL January 23, 2026, 4:05am 5

Hi,
You can run the command to boot to initrd RAM Disk:

Flashing Support — NVIDIA Jetson Linux Developer Guide

And can customize it for your use-case:

Flashing Support — NVIDIA Jetson Linux Developer Guide

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Full Root Filesystem from RAM (RAMFS) on Jetson AGX Orin with JetPack 6.2

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