From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 3 17:03:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA16275 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 3 Jan 1998 17:03:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zerium.newmedia.no (root@[194.198.117.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA16236; Sat, 3 Jan 1998 17:03:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hanspb@persbraten.vgs.no) Received: from localhost (hanspbie@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zerium.newmedia.no (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id CAA01433; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 02:02:52 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 02:02:51 +0100 (CET) From: Hans Petter Bieker X-Sender: hanspbie@zerium.newmedia.no To: FreeBSD Hackers cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why dump to /var?? In-Reply-To: <19980104102759.11459@lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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? $ mkdir /tmp/c /: write failed, file system is full mkdir: c: No space left on device is it possible to do something similar here? Or is this msg generated by the kernel? -bieker