Re: Is this deletable...
John Honniball <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.slackware |
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| Organization | Stoke Gifford Computer Museum |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Insomniactoo wrote: > On Sunday, 17 June 2012 07:23 John Honniball wrote: >>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's the same filesystem object, just pointed to by a different name. > 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. Yes, it's a "pretend" file, made up by the OS kernel to represent the kernel RAM in your system. -- John Honniball [email protected]