Is this installation too big?

[Siggy Brentrup]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 20:29 +0000, 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?

You better don't try to.  /proc is a virtual file system meaning
doesn't take any space on your disk.  /proc/kcore is the kernel's
memory image better don't touch it.

And please break lines (did it for you this time) and configure your
mailer to send text/plain to mailing list, nobody wants to see the
(longer) text/html part.

Regs
  Siggy
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