In linux.debian.laptop, you wrote: > ps: I have 256 M of ram and 320M is around the sum of my ram and the > swap space thats being used so I assume it's the combined total of > memory that the kernel is using. So I probably don't want to get rid of > it do I :) just of my root partition if it was still there or appears in > the future when we have our next blue moon.
kcore should never increase in size. It is the size of physical RAM, and does not include swap (incidentally, if you want to search for text in memory for debugging purposes, then you have to grep both /proc/kcore and the swap device, /dev/hdAB) 2 possiblities I can think of: 1) Some weird bug in the kernel? 2) You just backup/restored from from tape, /proc is not mounted for some bizaare reason, and you are trying to write a real file to the /proc directory which is not a proc file system yet. How many partitions do you have? What is your df -k output? Bizaare. -- TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/ Entropy isn't what it used to be.
