From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 5 21:34:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pmade.org (dsl-att1-118-93.sb.101freeway.net [12.44.118.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B9B737B4C5 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 21:34:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (pjones@localhost) by pmade.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA49666; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 21:33:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pjones@pmade.org) Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 21:33:59 -0800 (PST) From: Peter Jones To: Drew Tomlinson Cc: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" Subject: Re: .core Files? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You are correct, these files are the result of core dumps. Unless you wanted to do some debugging, you can safely remove them. On Sun, 5 Nov 2000, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > 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 > -- ....................................................................... : Peter Jones : Unix Geek - Four Wheeling : : pjones@pmade.org : Code Writing - Jesus Freak : :....................................:................................: :echo er|perl -0160 -pe ';$;=ord$/;s;^;"\U$/".chr($\;-11).chr$\;+4;e;': :.....................................................................: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message