From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 6 19:09:44 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F59C16A4DF for ; Sun, 6 Aug 2006 19:09:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from iqgrande@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.234]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CA5343D49 for ; Sun, 6 Aug 2006 19:09:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from iqgrande@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i27so361239wxd for ; Sun, 06 Aug 2006 12:09:43 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:content-type:to:from:subject:date:x-mailer; b=OeE4KIwEN4kbqapGhCV2zX7pZzhzIudufCgeTmpFvXlT5qMw13YMEftkRjuvCDCv8mmsPkcBfpIBm/+idZkshYdzU9XBTjKpoLz2gYUwNwc2G/b2hQ4fsezr8zluuKZpWcs7HJFaB4hxwAl1oXJXRokwnhVcceo9LXr7/kKa2rY= Received: by 10.70.38.12 with SMTP id l12mr5598052wxl; Sun, 06 Aug 2006 12:09:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.5? ( [67.191.189.255]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 8sm2972002wra.2006.08.06.12.09.37; Sun, 06 Aug 2006 12:09:38 -0700 (PDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed To: FreeBSD Questions From: Anthony Agelastos Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 15:09:35 -0400 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Subject: /var/crash handling X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2006 19:09:44 -0000 In doing some poking around on my server, I noticed that I am using 926 MB in my /var folder (the partition is at 75% capacity). So, I dug a little deeper and a huge majority of this is in the /var/crash folder; I have two vmcore files (vmcore.0 and vmcore.1) that are each ~402MB and were created back in February. Are these safe for deletion? Are these files, essentially, a coredump of what was in virtual memory when there was a kernel crash? There are some other files in here as well (bounds, info.0, info.1, minfree); are these safe to delete? If there is some good documentation on this, could you please point me in the right direction. I found some items on ONLamp that gave me some droplets of information. Thank you for your assistance with this. -Anthony