#!/bin/sh

PARTITION="/dev/sda5"

echo unmounting $PARTITION
umount $PARTITION

echo retrieving ramdisk from $PARTITION
dd if=$PARTITION of=ramdisk bs=1048576 count=5
# disk dump 5 megabytes; you may need to change this size.

echo gzipping ramdisk
rm -f ramdisk.gz
gzip ramdisk