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Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 11:11:12 +1200
From: Alistair Lambie <alambie@relay.csd.sgi.com>
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To: Rory Hunter <roryh@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: oddness
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Rory Hunter wrote:
> 
> hi,
> 
> I noticed yesteday that it appears that a partition has been set aside
> by the previous owners of my O2 for /proc... assuming that 'df' isn't
> lying to me, can anyone think of a reason why an 800Mb partition would
> be set aside for /proc?
> 

No, this is not really a partition.  See the man page for proc(4).  It
provides an image of each active process on the system.  It does not
consume any disk resources.

Cheers, Alistair 

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