kcore file 1GB HD space (need help) !!
ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY
zamb at saudi.net.sa
Tue May 31 04:35:33 UTC 2005
On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 22:17 -0600, hrumland at telusplanet.net wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I have discovered recently that I have a kcore file on Kubuntu with a file
> size of 1 GB in my /proc file system. I realized that for a while the
> harddrive was constantly writing and that the harddrive space decreased
> rapidly. This happend also in UBUNTU once resulting in filling up the
> harddrive space to 95% with bad results. Now I need to know how I can delete
> this file from the proc file system and how I can make sure that this is not
> any more happen as this is the result of a crash core dump ????
>
> Can anybody help ??
>
> Thanks in advanced
>
> Holger
>
“/proc/kcore” is an image of the memory (RAM) of your system! Don't try
to delete it ever! The core dumps are named “core” not “kcore” and they
are disabled by default in Ubuntu. (The file is 1GB in size because you
have 1GB of RAM.)
All the files in “/proc” are virtual. In other words: they don't
consume any space of your hard-drive.
The problem with the decreasing space of your HD is caused by another
thing!
Ziyad.
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