/proc/kcore eating up space in my root FS

I am badly running out of space in my root FS ,and after running a find for files greater >100M i found a single culprit .../proc/kcore..is there anyway to rid myself of this file ?? Regards Digz ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [root@spiti ~]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda6 1012M 885M 76M 93% / /dev/sda3 99M 12M 83M 12% /boot none 1014M 0 1014M 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda7 494M 143M 327M 31% /tmp /dev/sda5 23G 7.5G 14G 36% /usr /dev/sda8 494M 99M 370M 21% /var /dev/sda10 29G 4.0G 24G 15% /backup-space /dev/sda2 12G 7.2G 4.1G 64% /home [root@spiti ~]# du -sch /proc/kcore 817M /proc/kcore 817M total

On Wednesday 31 May 2006 13:19, Digvijoy Chatterjee wrote:
I am badly running out of space in my root FS ,and after running a find for files greater >100M i found a single culprit .../proc/kcore..is there anyway to rid myself of this file ?? Regards Digz ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [root@spiti ~]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda6 1012M 885M 76M 93% / /dev/sda3 99M 12M 83M 12% /boot none 1014M 0 1014M 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda7 494M 143M 327M 31% /tmp /dev/sda5 23G 7.5G 14G 36% /usr /dev/sda8 494M 99M 370M 21% /var /dev/sda10 29G 4.0G 24G 15% /backup-space /dev/sda2 12G 7.2G 4.1G 64% /home
[root@spiti ~]# du -sch /proc/kcore 817M /proc/kcore 817M total
I suppose /proc has nothing to do with your harddisk space. -- CHAITANYA CHALASANI LINUX USER #410931

Digvijoy Chatterjee wrote:
I am badly running out of space in my root FS ,and after running a find for files greater >100M i found a single culprit .../proc/kcore..is there anyway to rid myself of this file ??
Nope. /proc is a virtual filesystem, it doesn't take up any space. /Per Jessen, Zürich

What Is /proc/kcore? None of the files in /proc are really there--they're all, "pretend," files made up by the kernel, to give you information about the system and don't take up any hard disk space. /proc/kcore is like an "alias" for the memory in your computer. Its size is the same as the amount of RAM you have, and if you read it as a file, the kernel does memory reads. Em Qua, 2006-05-31 às 13:19 +0530, Digvijoy Chatterjee escreveu:
I am badly running out of space in my root FS ,and after running a find for files greater >100M i found a single culprit .../proc/kcore..is there anyway to rid myself of this file ?? Regards Digz ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [root@spiti ~]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda6 1012M 885M 76M 93% / /dev/sda3 99M 12M 83M 12% /boot none 1014M 0 1014M 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda7 494M 143M 327M 31% /tmp /dev/sda5 23G 7.5G 14G 36% /usr /dev/sda8 494M 99M 370M 21% /var /dev/sda10 29G 4.0G 24G 15% /backup-space /dev/sda2 12G 7.2G 4.1G 64% /home
[root@spiti ~]# du -sch /proc/kcore 817M /proc/kcore 817M total

On 5/31/06, Bruce Marshall <bmarsh@bmarsh.com> wrote:
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 09:14, rejaine@bhz.jamef.com.br wrote:
What Is /proc/kcore?
It's a 'map' of your real memory. Thanks, After all this I actually found out that /opt was taking 700M in a 1G root partition, so it wasnt /proc/kcore..but find..said so and I got confused..
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Bruce Marshall
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Chaitanya Chalasani
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Digvijoy Chatterjee
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Per Jessen
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