ROFL... sorry rajesh... tried very hard to stop that!! tell me
something... you got 48megs of RAM??
The /proc FS is a virtual FS, and it doesn't take up any space on your
HDD. The file kcore is actually a copy of your memory image.
If you are looking for some fun, you could try doing
`cat /proc/kcore > /dev/audio` :-)
--Indra.
On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Rajesh Fowkar wrote:
> There is a file named kcore in /proc directory. This file is occupying
> around 50MB of HDD space. Can I safely delete this file ?
>
> It has got r______ permissions set to it, so even as root I cannot delete the
> file. I will have to change the permissions.
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