Re: Is this deletable...

Insomniactoo <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.slackware
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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

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