diff --git a/testsuites/fstests/support/ramdisk_support.c b/testsuites/fstests/support/ramdisk_support.c
index 339c63a6cb..17dbb67820 100644
--- a/testsuites/fstests/support/ramdisk_support.c
+++ b/testsuites/fstests/support/ramdisk_support.c
@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@
 #include "config.h"
 #endif
 
+#include <sys/stat.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
+
 #include <rtems/ramdisk.h>
 #include <rtems/blkdev.h>
 #include <rtems/libio.h>
@@ -25,6 +28,20 @@
 
 dev_t dev = 0;
 
+static void initialize_swapout_task(void)
+{
+  int fd = open(RAMDISK_PATH, O_RDONLY);
+  int rv = 0;
+
+  rtems_test_assert(fd >= 0);
+
+  rv = rtems_disk_fd_sync(fd);
+  rtems_test_assert(rv == 0);
+
+  rv = close(fd);
+  rtems_test_assert(rv == 0);
+}
+
 void
 init_ramdisk (void)
 {
@@ -36,6 +53,8 @@ init_ramdisk (void)
                          false, RAMDISK_PATH, &dev);
   rtems_test_assert (rc == 0);
 
+
+  initialize_swapout_task();
 }
 
 void