Joe Sullivan
Can I control the size of this file, and/or what gets written to it?
Ugh, I've had 8.1 running for just 2 days, and /proc/Kcore is at 137.6 MB already.
Both of you should calm done :) /proc is a *virtual* file system that occupies next to *no* disk space besides the inodes needed for the file system. All information below /proc comes from the kernel and drivers, but the space needed is in memory and not on disk! /proc/Kcore is a direct view of the kernel memory. The size you see is the space used *in memory* (be it real or swap), not on the disk! For checking, just boot the rescue system from CD/DVD and mount your root file system. If you look at /proc in that mounted filesystem, you'll see it's empty, no subdirectories, no files taking any space. Philipp -- Philipp Thomas work: pthomas@suse.de Development SuSE Linux AG private: pth@t-link.de