Re: Core dumps & /proc/kcore
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On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, David J. Kanter wrote:
> I'm trying to free up some disk space so hunted for core dumps. All I could
> find (find / -name "core" -xdev) was /proc/kcore, which is a whopping 131Mb.
> Is this a monolithic core dump that can be deleted?
The proc filesystem mounted on /proc (see fstab) is a virtual filesystem
provided by the kernel. This 'file' resides nowhere on your hd, but is
generated on the fly by the kernel (also I dont know more about this
'file').
Martin
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If Windows is the answer, can we please have the problem back?
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