Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 11:53:08 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Hans Petter Bieker <hanspb@persbraten.vgs.no> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Why dump to /var?? Message-ID: <19980104115308.21618@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980104014224.1314A-100000@zerium.newmedia.no>; from Hans Petter Bieker on Sun, Jan 04, 1998 at 02:02:51AM %2B0100 References: <19980104102759.11459@lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980104014224.1314A-100000@zerium.newmedia.no>
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On Sun, Jan 04, 1998 at 02:02:51AM +0100, Hans Petter Bieker wrote: > On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: >>> not enough free space? On which device? in my /var/crash directory? >> Presumably, unless you've changed /etc/rc. > > Doesn't savecore know which partition it should dump to? if not -- how > does it can it find out if the partition is full without trying to write? It takes the directory name as a parameter. Take a look in /etc/rc. > $ mkdir /tmp/c > /: write failed, file system is full > mkdir: c: No space left on device Boy, that *is* full. Not even space for a directory block. > is it possible to do something similar here? Or is this msg generated by > the kernel? The high-intensity messages are generated by the kernel. But what do you mean "something similar"? Do you mean, can you put your /tmp file system elsewhere? Yes, you can. Just do this: # mkdir /home/tmp # mv /tmp /TMP # ln -s /home/tmp /tmp At some later time, when you're sure you don't need anything in /TMP, you can remove it and its contents. Greg
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