[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I did a virus scan with clamscan and then f-prot. Clamscan notified
> me of one virus: V801 in file /proc/kcore. Going to this file it is
> VERY large (in fact takes up the majority of my partition). I can't
> seem to rm or shred this file. f
Renai LeMay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
RL> can someone tell me what the file /proc/kcore is used for?
The /proc filesystem consists entirely of virtual files created by the
kernel for various purposes. kcore happens to be an image of the
system memory; it's probably useful for ke
Quoting Renai LeMay ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> can someone tell me what the file /proc/kcore is used for?
Not really, but I can tell you what it is. It's a kernel
representation of your system memory, made to look like
a file, as is everything in /proc. Take a look at
Documentation/proc
can someone tell me what the file /proc/kcore is used for?
thanks,
Renai
You have 128Mb of memory ;-)
It maps your memory to that virtual file.
It doen't take any space on your disk.
Regards
At 11:51 AM 11/13/99 -0600, David J. Kanter wrote:
I'm trying to free up some disk space so hunted for core dumps. All I could
find (find / -name "core" -x
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On 13 Nov 1999, Riku Saikkonen wrote:
> >On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, David J. Kanter wrote:
> >> I'm trying to free up some disk space so hunted for core dumps. All I could
> >> find (find / -name "core" -xdev) was /proc/kcore, w
Martin Fluch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, David J. Kanter wrote:
>> I'm trying to free up some disk space so hunted for core dumps. All I could
>> find (find / -name "core" -xdev) was /proc/kcore, which is a whopping 131Mb.
>> Is this
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On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, David J. Kanter wrote:
> I'm trying to free up some disk space so hunted for core dumps. All I could
> find (find / -name "core" -xdev) was /proc/kcore, which is a whopping 131Mb.
> Is this a monolithic core dump t
I'm trying to free up some disk space so hunted for core dumps. All I could
find (find / -name "core" -xdev) was /proc/kcore, which is a whopping 131Mb.
Is this a monolithic core dump that can be deleted?
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