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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers proc directory Post 38454 by Perderabo on Wednesday 16th of July 2003 04:17:55 PM
Old 07-16-2003
It would help if you tell us which os you are using.

In general, the proc directory is a make-believe file system.

First that means that it is a seperate file system. If / and /usr are filesystems and / is tight on space, freeing up space in /usr does not help /. Ditto which /proc and /.

But /usr is at least a real filesystem. If you free up space in /usr, well then you have some space in /usr where you could put some files. That is not true of /proc. /proc is not real disk space and you cannot put files there.

/proc is a representation of the processes that are running. Yes, you can tune a kernel and limit the number of proceeses that can run. That will make /proc smaller.

Before you do that, look at /proc immediately after a boot. It will be much smaller. But you won't have any more disk space.
 

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PYDF(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   PYDF(1)

NAME
pydf - report colourised filesystem disk space usage SYNOPSIS
pydf [options] [file] DESCRIPTION
pydf is a python script that displays the amount of disk space available on the mounted filesystems, using different colours for different types of filesystems. Output format is completely customizable. If an optional file argument is given, pydf displays just information about filesystem containing the file(s), otherwise it displays information about all mounted filesystems. OPTIONS
--help Show summary of options. -v, --version Show version of program. -a, --all include filesystems having 0 blocks -h, --human-readable print sizes in human readable format (e.g., 133K 2341M 2448G) -H, --si likewise, but use powers of 1000 not 1024 --block-size=SIZE use SIZE-byte blocks -k, --kilobytes like --block-size=1024 -i, --inodes show information about inodes instead of blocks -l, --local limit listing to local filesystems -m, --megabytes like --block-size=1048576 -g, --gigabytes like --block-size=1073741824 --blocks use filesystem native block size --bw do not use colours --mounts=FILE file to get mount information from. On normal linux system, only /etc/mtab or /proc/mounts make sense. Use /proc/mounts when /etc/mtab is corrupted or inaccessible (the output looks a bit weird in this case though) -B, --show-binds Show also mount --bind mounted filesystems. BUGS
When running with python3, mountpoints with out-of-locale non ASCII names will not be displayed (due to inability of os.statvfs to use bytes instead of strings). FILES
/etc/pydfrc main configuration file ~/.pydfrc per-user configuration file SEE ALSO
df(1) AUTHOR
Radovan Garabik <garabik@kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk> PYDF(1)
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