thanks tom,
yes i have 96mb ram, it's a bit unnerving to know that file sizes can be lied
about/misreported like that, is it just /dev/ entries that do this ? i know
this has confused me before, i'm a gui person really and i need to know when
to trust what konq is telling me!
bascule
On Wednesday 03 January 2001 9:30 pm, you wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 January 2001 02:45 pm, bascule wrote:
> > i have found a file named /dev/core which is approx 95mb (so it is
> > claimed) which points to /proc/kcore also 95mb in size, this confuses
> > me on 2 fronts, how could a symlink be 95mb in size and is this
> > normal, /proc/...being a virtual filesystem - do i need to delete
> > this file or not
> >
> > bascule
>
> These aren't really files. Yes, they're vitual, sometimes called
> pretend files. My /dev/core is 256mb. That's the amount of ram I have.
> I take it you have 96 ?
> type 'du -ch /dev/*' (try /proc/* too) and you'll see that most all
> the 'files' in /dev are -0- byte. The total for the whole /dev
> directory should only be something over 100k, mostly due to many 1/2k
> dir listings. Don't delete anything in either /dev or /proc
