Gottfried Szing wrote:
# cd /proc
^^^^^^^
# ls -l kc* -r-------- 1 root root 948887552 Apr 15 18:41 kcore
what is it and do I need it ..?
It's a core dump of memory. Do: size core
and it will tell you what program dumped it, and then think back to what you were doing with that proggy at 18:41 on 15 Apr and think what might have gone wrong; otherwise rm -f kcore
i think you haved missed that the file is in the proc-directory and therefore it is not a "real" file with that size.
Oops. My bad. :)
the files in the proc-fs
are just snapshots of kernel-internal datastructures and other stuff like configuration and statistics. so removing the file should not be possible (i have never tried it).
from my kernel doc (/usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt)
===================== kcore Kernel core image (can be ELF or A.OUT(deprecated in 2.4)) =====================
so, never worry about files in the /proc because they do not use "real" hard disk space.
cu
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