It seems that everything (SLES10) works fine but as I checked the available disk space I saw that the root partition is complete. The reason for this is the file /proc/kcore. Can someone tell me why /proc/kcore can have a size of 5 GB when the RAM has only a size of 4GB?

The /proc directory is a filesystem on its own and does not take up any diskspace. When you unmount /proc, the directory /proc is empty. The file /proc/kcore represents your physical memory (minus a few kilobytes by the looks of it), is part of the proc filesystem and does not take up disk space. You can get a list of current mounts with the mount command (no options). Perhaps /proc wasn't mounted at some stage, and some process wrote into /proc and onto the disk? Check /proc is mounted now. Temporarily unount /proc and check that the directory is empty; if not, delete everything in it and mount /proc again. Check there is an entry for /proc in /etc/fstab, and that it gets mounted at boot. Check the size of your root filesystem with du -x / Be careful to always use -x here, and make sure you don't accidentally include other filesystems in the listing. For example du -x /* will give you the size of /proc as well as others, but you never want to know the size of filesystems like /proc (or sys, devfs) as they're all fakes without disk space. Keep hunting for your disk use, and use df and mount to see where filesystems start. Btw this list is specific for 64 bit issues, which yours is not and your question would be better asked on one of the general lists (there is a very good German one too). HTH, Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-amd64+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-amd64+help@opensuse.org