On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 12:11:07AM +1100, Gilbert Rehling wrote: > Hello to all. > I have two servers both with the same problem. > Both seem to have run out of space on the / directory > 1 system has 256 mb of space for the / and the 2nd has 497 mb for the / > > On inspection I found that on both systems the /proc/kcore to be rather > large. > On the 1st its 402657280 and 939528192 on the 2nd. > I did manage to free up some space on the second system by uninstalling a > heap of programs, but after rebooting the free space disappeared again. > > I noticed that the kcore file is actually a linked file, but from where? > /dev?? > > Also any program that requires free space there won't run. I can access via > webmin, and terminal, but Xwindows will no longer start. > > Can anyone please help me with this and or point me to some data about the > kcore. > My guess is that this is the kernel core file. > > My 7.3 machine only shows 131 mb used on the / but its /proc/kcore file is > 251645952 > > So, any explanation on this phenomena would be greatly appreciated. > Thanks in advance for any help and I hope this proves to be a usefull > question. > > Gilbert R > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't think kcore is the problem. The files in /proc are not really files. They are content that the kernal provides on request. For example on my machine: [EMAIL PROTECTED] proc]$ ls -l kcore -r-------- 1 root root 145113088 Feb 24 09:20 kcore [EMAIL PROTECTED] proc]$ du -s kcore 0 kcore So you see kcore really does not take up space. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University 715 Stadium Dr. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200
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