X won't open

Chris Aitken caitken-Bm8TULXj0r/3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org
Thu Jan 12 03:22:33 UTC 2006


caitken-Bm8TULXj0r/3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org wrote:

> caitken-Bm8TULXj0r/3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org writes:
> <snip>
>
>>
>> [root at p733]# ls -a /initrd
>> . .. 
>> 1007960 one-kilobyte blocks -- I guess that's a gigabyte. SO, it 
>> takes up space! 
>> I'll read up on initrd... 
>
>
> I found a list of the standard directories (/, /bin, /boot, /dev et 
> al) and /initrd was not listed. Maybe it's like /proc in that it only 
> runs when the OS is running -- not an installed directory...
> I'll do a web search...

Looks like /initrd is involved with  RAM disk set up during boot --- not 
something I want to try to delete!

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