From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 5 20:54:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (lcmail2.lc.ca.gov [165.107.12.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC4F337B4CF for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 20:54:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON by lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (PMDF V5.2-27 #40821) id <0G3L001016YJ0V@lcmail2.lc.ca.gov> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 20:54:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from bigdaddy ([165.107.15.105]) by lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (PMDF V5.2-27 #40821) with SMTP id <0G3L000CE6YI5S@lcmail2.lc.ca.gov> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 05 Nov 2000 20:54:19 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 20:54:32 -0800 From: Drew Tomlinson Subject: .core Files? To: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My system is running low on space in /. After the system was built, I had about 50% free. I haven't added anything substantial to the system since I built it but now the system is at 108%. I have looked at the disk and found files *.core files that appear to be rather large. File names are syslogd.core, inetd.core, telnetd.core, and tcsh.core. They appear to be binary files. Are these files from core dumps? I don't even know if I've had a core dump or not but I have powered off the system without shutting down properly. Can these files be safely deleted? Thanks, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message