[ale] proc

Clay Lawrence servo at bellsouth.net
Mon Jun 21 18:06:13 EDT 1999


Be prepared to reinstall if you remove it. That's where the system keeps all
the hardware stuff like IRQ's, processor data, etc.

Clay

MetroBoy wrote:

> What is the proc filesystem?  It's not mounted from any device, yet it's
> mentioned in fstab.  If you try to go to its mount point, there's like
> nothing there.  I was wondering if I could remove it from fstab, but
> thought I probably shouldn't since the GUI user mounting tool says the
> device is busy.  Can somebody tell me more about proc?
>
> Ed
>
> Livin' La Vida Loca






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