From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 4 23:58:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sasi.com (sasi.com [164.164.56.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7B6537B85F for ; Thu, 4 May 2000 23:58:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gbnaidu@sasi.com) Received: from samar (sasi.com [164.164.56.2]) by sasi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA16847; Fri, 5 May 2000 12:27:59 +0530 (IST) Received: from hpd14.sasi.com ([10.0.16.14]) by sasi.com; Fri, 05 May 2000 12:27:59 +0000 (IST) Received: from localhost (gbnaidu@localhost) by hpd14.sasi.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA06006; Fri, 5 May 2000 12:39:24 +0530 (IST) Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 12:39:24 +0530 (IST) From: "G.B.Naidu" To: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Do I need more swap space... In-Reply-To: <20000505154515.O32650@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > -- > When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. > For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > See complete headers for address and phone numbers > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message