James wrote: > I had not emerged a gentoo system for a while now / is filled up. > > Looking for large files to remove, I found in /proc: > > -r-------- 1 root root 1073672192 May 13 22:31 kcore > > > I guess this is not a good file to remove? > > Kernel images are only this big: > -rw------- 1 root root 2298699 Apr 30 00:17 kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r6B > > > the kcore file is killing a 500 M partion. > > Ideas on what to do? > > > James > > > > As sayd ignore it or understud it, you can look at /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt . kcore Kernel core image (can be ELF or A.OUT(deprecated in 2.4))
another note: your kcore is very big (five times mine) ypu may want to optimize what is compiled in modifying the kernelconfig before to build it (and for this google is your friend ;) ciao francesco -- .................................................................... . These pages are best viewed by coming to my house and looking at . . my monitor. [S. Lucas Bergman (on his website)] . .................................................................... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
