Re: [expert] I'm confused... - no space lefdt on device?

[Mark Weaver]

Craig,

Thank you...that information helps me make sense of a few things, but now
I'm really stumped cause all that being the case what the heck is eating
up all the space on the "/"? I can't find any large files anywhere except
there, and this whole thing started yesterday on this machine just after a
run-away MySQL process took off. I had to reboot the machine to kill the
process and /dev/hda1 ("/") has been at 99% since then. Since this has
only happened once before AND on a Mandrake system I'm really at a loss as
to what to do about it.

Mark

On Wed, 16 May 2001, Craig Sprout wrote:

> Mark Weaver wrote:
>
> > Any ideas on how to get rid of this file in /proc?
>
> kcore (and everything else) in /proc are pseudo-files, and really don't
> take any disk space.  kcore happens to represent your RAM.  Everything
> else in /proc are your running processes, represented as a filesystem.
>
> That is probably quite a bit oversimplified, but that's the upthrust.
>
> HTH.
>
> --
> Craig Sprout
> Network Administrator
> Crown Parts and Machine, Inc.
> http://www.crownpartsandmachine.com/
>
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