Re: Is this deletable...
Insomniactoo <[email protected]>
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On Sunday, 17 June 2012 07:23 John Honniball wrote: > Dimitris Tzemos wrote: > > /proc/kcore is like an "alias" for the memory in your computer. > > But he found the file in /dev, not /proc. If it's a real > core-dump file, dropped there by a crashing process, then the > 'file' command will be able to say a bit more about it: > > $ file core > Okay, I went to /dev and did that and it's a sym link to /proc/kcore, which I suppose is the same thing since it's exactly the same size. It doesn't *seem* to actually be using a whole GB of space on the HDD, as Dmitris said, it's sorta just 'there' doing nothing, heh. JB -- Powered by Slackware Linux 13.37 08:08:32 up 5 days, 14:36, 3 users, load average: 0.76, 0.76, 0.77 All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. -Edmund Burke Registered Linux user #214117 at http://linuxcounter.net