I was browsing through my file system one day on my linux partition and noticed somthing that i never did before in the /proc directory. firstly what is this directory I now that it has somthing to do with the procedure file system what ever that is I dont know, secondly why does it duplicate my root directory and then create nested copies of it. they seem to go on endlessly what perpose does that serve just curiouse. Mabey its just my computer but I have tried differant linux distrobutions and the all seem to do the same thing. Oh and for the record I can not delete them any at all very strange.........?????
You can't delete anything in /proc because theres nothing to delete.. the information is retrieved from memory and formatted when requested by the kernel. If you examine it closely, you will see that only a few files actually report a size. 'proc' stands for 'process,' not procedure. This filesystem is important, as many commands need the information in provides. The proc(5) manpage explains what many of the files are. There are lots of symlinks and yes, you can follow them to get ridiculously long paths for any of the files on your system like /proc/self/root/proc/self/root/...
Michael Spang
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