/debug directory -- what is it?

[dave "who can do? ratmandu!" ratcliffe]

In article <901001113629.21202546 at FEDC06.FED.ORNL.GOV> RUITERJR at FEDC06.FED.ORNL.GOV ("To Thine Own Self be True.") writes:
>Hello all, 
>
>      What is the /debug directory for?  I've looked through the
>manuals and can't find anything on it.  Seems its taking up a rather
>large portion of our disk space, but I've never seem much of it used.
>
>      Anyway I can reduce its space (or is this even desirable?) ?

neither of the other responses mentioned:  check out the DBG(4) man page on
the debug file system.
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