Is this installation too big?

[Ryan Pugatch]

pkaplan1 at comcast.net wrote:
> I recently re-installed kubuntu 9.04 onto a drive with a 10Gb partition 
> for / and a separate 100Gb partition for /home.  Until this, I always 
> used the 32-bit version, but decided to install the 64-bit version.  The 
> / partition has always been 3-4Gb, even with 9.04, but I surprised to 
> see / is suddenly 8.6Gb.
> 
> I can't imagine that the 64-bit version should be so much larger than 
> the 32-bit version (largely the same apps), but I noticed that there is 
> a 4.9 file called /proc/kcore.  It seemed to appear after I installed 
> the kde 4.3 RC3 packages (can't be certain), but I don't recall there is 
> a similarly bloated file on another 4.3-RC3 machine.  This file seems 
> able to interfere with the system by eating space.  Although I can 
> delete the file if I boot from a CD, I can't delete while on the 
> offending machine.
> 
> Any ideas what the file is, why it's there, why its so big and how to 
> get rid of it?
> 
> Paul
> 
> 


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Ryan Pugatch
Systems Administrator, TripAdvisor