Voytek wrote:
using Tony's method, my largest file is:
find / -ls -type f 2>/dev/null | awk '{print $7 " " $11 }' | sort -nr | head -10
# cd /proc # ls -l kc* -r-------- 1 root root 948887552 Apr 15 18:41 kcore
what is it and do I need it ..?
It's a core dump of memory. Do: size core
and it will tell you what program dumped it, and then think back to what you were doing with that proggy at 18:41 on 15 Apr and think what might have gone wrong; otherwise rm -f kcore
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