1.touch a directory for mount(in your work directory)
#mkdir mount_dir
2.create a image file
#dd if=/dev/zero of=ramdisk.image bs=1M count=15 (capablity=bs*count=15M)
3.format the ramdisk.image as ext3
#mkfs.ext3 -F -v -m 0 ramdisk.image
4.mount ramdisk.image to mount_dir
#mount -o loop ramdisk.image mount_dir
5.cp what you want to mount_dir
6.unmout mount_dir
7.compress ramdisk.image
#gzip -v9