[H-GEN] Running low on disc space

[Timothy Hitchens]

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Hmm why did my (e-mail) comment that it doesn't exists on the hard drive
not make it to the list.


HiTCHO has Spoken!
Timothy Hitchens (HiTCHO)
timothy.hitchens at hitcho.com.au

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> From: Majordomo [mailto:majordom at caliburn.humbug.org.au] On
> Behalf Of Mark Suter
> Sent: Thursday, 19 December 2002 7:19 PM
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> Subject: Re: [H-GEN] Running low on disc space
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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,
>
> - -- Mark John Suter  | I know that you  believe  you
> understand suter at humbug.org.au | what you think I said, but I
> am not sure gpg key id 2C71D63D | you realise that what you
> heard  is not
> mobile 0411 262 316 | what I meant.        Robert J. McCloskey
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