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K927A

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What is the file in here, kernelinfo.txt ?

I'm tracking down oversized files in /data and this is one of them, at 247mb.

Should it be this big?
 
At that size it could be a log file, but why not copy it to your computer and open it and see what's in it?
 
Ok I tried that. At that size it's hard to open, just causes wordpad to lag horribly, so I can't read much of it but it does look like a log gone rogue (like anr_history). Safe to delete? Anyone know what it's ever used for/why it gets written to?
 
I wanted to update this.
I took the time last night to fully read through kernelinfo.txt. It appears to be a dumpstate/logcat from the date I suddenly lost all the remaining freespace on my internal storage. I have another log, anr_history.txt growing out of control (I know why, I traced that to a hanging app). Part of kernelinfo, in fact the majority of it, is a copy of the text in anr_history. I think it actually ran out of room when it created the file.

I'm still curious to know what conditions would prompt android to create that log. It doesn't appear that it's cumulative, but rather overwritten each time it's created (I'm guessing as there's only one header).

Anyone know?
 
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