Original question:
In My Digital Unix computer I found some files that take lot of disk
space.Can I delete these file?If I delete these files My computer can still
work very well?
The files is displayed as below:csh:godzilla:
/proc>ls -ltotal 1638280
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root system 16416 Feb 2 13:15 ./
-rw------- 1 root system 807886848 Feb 2 13:15 00000
-rw------- 1 root system 8650752 Feb 2 13:15 00001
-rw------- 1 root system 9248768 Feb 2 13:15 00003
-rw------- 1 root system 17145856 Feb 2 13:15 00025
-rw------- 1 root system 17170432 Feb 2 13:15 00110
............
Answer:
The /proc file system does NOT take up ANY space at all. If you don't
want it to be visible, just unmount it from the system, and then comment
out the line in /etc/fstab that mounts it at system boot time.
Until you really learn what you are doing, don't do anything rash -- UNIX
is a power tool, but you can injure yourself if you misuse it. Removing
things from the system that you think might not be needed is a good way
to break a system irrepairably.
Or
STOP!, the /proc file system is a special directory. It is used by some
programs to access process information. If you check, the "files" are the
process ID of each process. You can not delete it, and they are not using
disk space.
To avoid seeing that file system, simply you can avoid mounting it in
/etc/fstab.
If you have disk space problems, check files in /var or in /tmp (/usr/tmp)
that may be big.Thank to:
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Received on Fri Feb 04 2000 - 16:07:33 NZDT