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Date:      Fri, 5 May 2000 12:39:24 +0530 (IST)
From:      "G.B.Naidu" <gbnaidu@sasi.com>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Do I need more swap space...
Message-ID:  <Pine.GHP.4.10.10005051237090.23210-100000@hpd14.sasi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000505154515.O32650@freebie.lemis.com>

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Hi Greg,

Thanks a lot for the help. You are right that /var/crash doesnt have much
space. So I booted in single user mode, then manually I saved crash dump
into /usr/crash where I have enough space. It worked and I got the dump.

But now my question is: can I change the default /var/crash directory to
/usr/crash directory in the /etc/rc file of the line savecore?  Will it be
ok to do like?

thanks for the help
--gb

On Fri, 5 May 2000, Greg Lehey wrote:

> On Friday,  5 May 2000 at 11:50:55 +0530, G.B.Naidu wrote:
> >
> > I have a FreeBSD box running 3.1 release. RAM size is: 32 MB and I have a
> > swap space of 69 MB.
> 
> You only need as much swap as memory to write the dump, but it all has
> to be contiguous: if you had three swap partitions of 23 MB each, you
> wouldn't be able to dump.
> 
> > Recently my system panicked and when it is rebooting, savecore says:
> > not enough space on the device. What does this mean? Does it mean
> > that 69 MB swap space is not sufficient? Or is it that /var/crash
> > directory doesnt have much space?
> 
> It means that you don't have enough space on /var/crash.
> 
> Greg
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