Is this machine a physical or virtual machine? Anyway, as the file has been generated when your machine crashed last time, it indicate that the server tried to save the memory data into a core dump file which obviously failed ~ since the crash has happen already a while ago should it be safe to delete the file. Please also note that the file is a dump of memory and therefore can it be safely be deleted without any impact to the running system (including reboot). Cheers, Si >-----Original Message----- >From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx >[mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of >Ramakrishnan Seshadhri >Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:38 AM >To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx >Subject: /root file system is getting filled up > >Hi, > >I have RHEL 5 and I can see that my / filesystem is getting filled up. >Upon digging into the file system I can see that there is >a*vmcore-incomplete >*file eating up 2.8 GB of space. > >[root@linuxserv /]# cd /var/crash/2008-10-29-10\:28/ > >[root@linuxserv 2008-10-29-10:28]# ls -ltr >total 2790788 >-r-------- 1 root root 3058216960 Oct 29 10:29 *vmcore-incomplete* > >[root@linuxserv 2008-10-29-10:28]# df -h / >Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on >/dev/sda7 7.7G 6.1G 1.3G 84% / > >Can I remove this file. Actually this file was created when my Machine >crashed last year. >If I remove this file and reboot my machine will Linux come up >normally or >will it fail. >Any help here is much appreciated. > > >Ram >-- >redhat-list mailing list >unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
