On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Maurice Hendrix wrote:
> > In my /proc directory I have a bunch of files and they are nearly all '0'
> > bit except one; and it is LARGE. Here is what I see (in part)..
> >
> > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 24 08:36 interrupts
> > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 24 08:36 ioports
> > -r-------- 1 root root 134221824 Aug 24 07:55 kcore
> > -r-------- 1 root root 0 Aug 23 22:15 kmsg
> > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 24 08:36 ksyms
> >
> > Kcore is over 134 megs large, and it really does occupy this much space.
> > Does this appear normal. Why is this file so large? How do I reduce it or
> > kill it? I tried booting things up with rescue disks and then deleted
> > that file. I then rebooted normally and it was back. It just seems odd to
> > have such a large file there which I never noticed before. And of course I
> > would like to recover that drive space.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> AFAIK /proc is a virtual filesystem. Files in this filesystem are largely
> none-existing. IIRC /proc/kcore is just an image. It does not occupy any
> space on your disk.
>
> Anybody, please correct me if I'm wrong.
That is what I thought; files in /proc dir are virtual files and do not
occupy any real disk space. However, when I copied that file over to
another directory I saw that it indeed was 134 megs large? HOw is that
possible.
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