Re: Is this deletable...

On Sunday, 17 June 2012 08:11 Insomniactoo wrote:

> 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.
> 

  file kcore had this to say:

kcore: ELF 32-bit LSB core file Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), SVR4-style, from 
'BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=812 vt.default_utf8=0'


  No clue if that's bad, good, end of the world, 6 Miss Universe contestants 
have fallen in love with me and are seeking me out at this very moment, 
whatever...


  JB



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