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Operating Systems Solaris Impact of zero link count files in proc Post 302457897 by citaylor on Wednesday 29th of September 2010 03:34:12 AM
Old 09-29-2010
absolutly nothing...the /proc filesystem is different from other filesystems. They are all "virtual" files representing various structures and data of the operating system - they do not actually exist on any disk space anywhere and therefore do not have any impact on disk space.

I hope this helps.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

virtual-filesystems

virtual-filesystems(7)					 Miscellaneous Information Manual				    virtual-filesystems(7)

NAME

       virtual-filesystems - event signalling that virtual filesystems have been mounted

SYNOPSIS

       virtual-filesystems [ENV]...

DESCRIPTION

       The  virtual-filesystems  event	is  generated  by  the mountall(8) daemon after it has mounted all virtual filesystems listed in fstab(5).
       mountall(8) emits this event as an informational signal, services and tasks started or stopped by this event will do so	in  parallel  with
       other activity.

       This event is typically used by services that must be started in order to mount other filesystems.  When this event occurs, common filesys-
       tems such as /usr may not be mounted.  For most normal services the filesystem(7) event is sufficient.

EXAMPLE

       A service that wishes to be running once virtual filesystems are mounted might use:

	      start on virtual-filesystems

SEE ALSO

       mounting(7) mounted(7) local-filesystems(7) remote-filesystems(7) all-swaps(7) filesystem(7)

mountall							    2009-12-21						    virtual-filesystems(7)
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