From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 3 12:38:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA01814 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 3 Jan 1998 12:38:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from zerium.newmedia.no (root@[194.198.117.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA01788 for ; Sat, 3 Jan 1998 12:38:41 -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 UAA00318 for ; Sat, 3 Jan 1998 20:24:40 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 3 Jan 1998 20:24:39 +0100 (CET) From: Hans Petter Bieker X-Sender: hanspbie@zerium.newmedia.no To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Why dump to /var?? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I got this message after a recent system crash: checking for core dump...savecore: reboot after panic: page fault savecore: system went down at Sat Jan 3 18:35:32 1998 savecore: no dump, not enough free space on device not enough free space? On which device? in my /var/crash directory? How much space does actually this dump need? Equal to the size of my swap partition? If so.. why dump to /var by default. Most people don't have hundreds of mb's free in var? Maybe a comment in /etc/rc.conf about this? Maybe savecore should say something like this: savecore: /var: no dump, not enough free space on device Anyone? Any why not send this error msg to syslogd? (This is a good thing if you don't have a serial console.) Filesystems: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/wd0a 31775 18954 10279 65% / /dev/wd0s1f 377238 240884 106175 69% /usr /dev/wd0s1e 29727 3249 24100 12% /var /dev/wd1s1e 808223 494311 249255 66% /home procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc Swap: Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type /dev/wd0s1b 174048 0 173984 0% Interleaved I have 80 MB ram.