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Date:      Fri, 18 Dec 1998 12:41:48 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Donny Lee <donnylee@usa.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /proc
Message-ID:  <19981218124148.J486@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <3679BAA7.B0C8B6DE@usa.net>; from Donny Lee on Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 10:15:03AM %2B0800
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812172024110.5241-100000@ogurok.com> <3679BAA7.B0C8B6DE@usa.net>

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On Friday, 18 December 1998 at 10:15:03 +0800, Donny Lee wrote:
> Oleg Ogurok wrote:
>>> What is /proc for?
>>> becuase it's already full can I delete them ?
>> No, you can't. It's always full. It has immage of all the processes
>> running on your machine. Without it you couldn't even use the "ps"
>> command.
>
>     then is it located somewhere in a slice?  can one mount it
>     in other place, asy a mfs?

No, it's not on disk.  It's a pseudo-file system, just an idea in the
mind of the kernel.

Greg
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