kcore file

[thales]

when i put the mouse over the file /proc/kcore, konqueror displays "Program crash data"
can i delete this file which is about 512MB, cause i'm running out of disk space?
i'm running mdk 9.0
thanks

[KeeperChris]

Konqueror is obviously confused by the word "core" in the file name...

This file is in fact a virtual image of your memory - not only should you NOT delete this file, I don't even think you could actually delete it. While at your end it shows as a 512MB file ( the size of your memory, mine is 384MB ) it doesn't actually take any drive space.

You'd be better off poking in /var/log to see if you have any large log files that you could compress or delete.

[thales]

thank you for pointing me to right direction,
it's right, i cannot delete it : "don't have permission....", and my memory is 512Mb
i have large log files under /var/log, i'll see there, i only have about 60mb of free disk space.
thanks again

[chrism01]

Try a find cmd with the size option eg:
find / -size +1000 -print 2>/dev/null
see man find