From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 6 11: 5: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C672237B9BA for ; Sat, 6 May 2000 11:05:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA50055; Sat, 6 May 2000 11:04:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Message-ID: <39145EB6.3FB66FC@gorean.org> Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 11:04:38 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-0422 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "G.B.Naidu" Cc: Greg Lehey , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Do I need more swap space... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "G.B.Naidu" wrote: > > 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? Much easier to symlink /var/crash to a fs where you have space. I link it to /usr/tmp/crash on a lot of my machines, works fine. Good luck, Doug -- Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. -- W. Somerset Maugham To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message