Simon, Thanks a lot for your response. This is a physical machine and not a virtual server. It has 8 GB ram and Intel Xeon T5400 Processor. I think H/w details doesn't matter here. I will go ahead and delete the file to freeup space. Ram On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Reber, Simon <simon.reber@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
