[H-GEN] Running low on disc space

[Mark Suter]

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On 2002-12-19, Ewan Edwards wrote:

> I was wondering where all my disc space went, so I ran "du -smx *" from the 
> root directory and found that /proc was using up 898Mbyte.  That didn't seem 
> right to me so I listed the contents (ls -la) and found the following file;
> 
> -r--------    1 root     root     939528192 Dec 19 17:41 kcore
> 
> From what little I know about the /proc file system, this seems like a 
> candidate for deleting.  Before I blow it away can anyone tell me if I'm 
> right or wrong about that.

You won't be able to delete this file - it's not using any disk
space in any event.  Here's my system:

    $ ls -l /proc/kcore
    -r--------    1 root     root     536809472 Dec 19 19:08 /proc/kcore
    $ grep Mem: /proc/meminfo
    Mem:  528875520 489340928 39534592        0 86839296 272957440

Notice how the total memory and the kcore file are about the same
size?  Basically, kcore is the running system, warts and all...

Yours sincerely,

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