[Tfug] Question: /sys/devices/

erich erich1 at copper.net
Sat Jul 4 11:33:14 MST 2009


This has got me curious,
           The particular machine I'm looking at right now has a 2.6.25
kernel installed. I look at /sys/devices/pci0000:00, and I see a bunch
of directories. What kernel version are you using?


                                                                Erich


                                                                                                                    
John Gruenenfelder wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 08:46:45PM -0400, Charles R. Kiss wrote:
>   
>> /sys/devices/pci0000:00 is over 500MB in size!  It's taking half of my /  
>> partition. What is it?
>>     
>
> /sys is part of sysfs.  If you look at the output from 'mount' you should see
> that this isn't part of your root partition.  It's all virtual, just like
> /proc.  As to what it is... given its size, probably the memory mapping of
> your video card?  Hard to say.
>
> Read up on sysfs and you should find all you need.
>
>
>   





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