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I think this has to do with my 512MB NVidia card, but I don’t know if it is a bug or it is supposed to have a 600+ MB sized sys directory, which is by the way 10% of my root partition.
I used to run Archlinux, Ubuntu, openSUSE 11.3 and I never observed this before.
PS: I use binary NVidia drivers, version 260.19.29.
which shows that* /sys* is a mount point and thus everything that is in* /sys* is NOT in your* /* (root partition).
It also shows that the type of that file system is sysfs. You can read more about that fs type in Sysfs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
On 01/04/2011 01:32 PM, inp3dance wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I run openSUSE 11.4 M5 and I discovered today that my /sys directory is
> 620MB. I have two 256MB files in it:
> Code:
> --------------------
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0/resource1
> --------------------
> and
> Code:
> --------------------
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0/resource1_wc
> --------------------
/sys is a virtual file system. From the file names, these two are associated
with PCI devices. The driver is configured with /sys entries so that the state
of the device/driver can be interrogated and/or updated while the system is
running. The “files” are not taking any space on your hard drive.