Would it be more prudent to move it first then verify system will reboot successfully? 100% agree on seperate /var partition and seperate /var/audit partition. Paul W. On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 07:20 -0500, mark wrote: > Hi, Ramakrishnan, > > Ramakrishnan Seshadhri wrote: > > 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/ > > And that's why I always recommend that /var be a separate partition - if it > fills up, the system won't die, just complain a *lot*. > > > > [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. > > Yes. Blow it away, unless you need it for legal reasons, or if you're still > debugging it to figure out why the system crashed. > > mark > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
