Gulp, blushing, digging toe into dirt. Oops! Returning to very shaky system to find something else monsterous. Sorry 'bout that, folks. -- W3AHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] Downingtown, PA > On Monday 29 September 2003 9:32 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Somehow I've done some not-so-wonderous things to my RH9 installation: > > I have a Monsterous (348Mb) /proc/kcore file which I cannot remove or > > edit down. It is preventing me from using the system as it has filled > > the / partition to full. I can't change permissions (even as root), > > rm it, or vi it. Two questions - what can I do to get rid of it? and, > > - any idea what is the underlying cause of this file's creation and > > expansion? Any help will be appreciated. > > -- > > Be prepared to look embarrassed...... > > The kcore file is merely a map of memory and doesn't exist. In fact, all > of the 'files' in /proc don't really exist but are created by the kernel > to hold information about the system (only while the system is up and > running). > > So /proc/kcore is not your problem. Something else is. > > > > -- > +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
> + Bruce S. Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bellaire, MI 09/29/03 > 09:40 + > +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > "This file will self-destruct in five minutes." > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> > http://mail.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://mail.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
