06-11-2001
core files
ok heres a question,
well obviously
i have here my old old motorola system V/88
in my /usr/adm folder i have a file called
kernelcore which is 16mb (the computer has 16mb ram too), we believe this is the contents of our ram when the system crashed back in feb last year!
Is it save to delete this file? core files are usually backups for when things crash arnt they?
and another file,
pacct is also in the /usr/adm folder, this ones 25mb, someone did mention to me that it might be some kind of accounting thing.
the poor computer only has 500mb hard disk space and we are struggleing to keep 40mb free!
Please help me,
thanks
Ian
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NAME
bootcdflopcp - copy changes made after booting from bootcd to floppy
SYNOPSIS
bootcdflopcp [-v] [-d <device>]
DESCRIPTION
bootcdflopcp will copy changes made in ram to the floppy disk. bootcdflopcp will be available as soon as your system is running from cd.
The floppy has to have a filesystem already. (See mke2fs or mformat). If you have to boot from floppy, because your cd-drive or bios does
not support to boot from cd a msdos filesystem is used to run syslinux. When bootcdflopcp is called it searches for differences between
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it will be saved to change.tgz on floppy. If it is listed in remove the file will be removed from ram next boot time. If it is listed in
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OPTIONS
-v The option "-v" (verbose) adds messages on running.
-d <device>
Use another device instead of "/dev/fd0" to save changes.
FILES
FLOPPY:/remove
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FLOPPY:/ignore
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SEE ALSO
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AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Bernd Schumacher <bernd.schumacher@hp.com>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
Wed Feb 23 00:00:00 EET 2000 BOOTCD(1)