/root file system is getting filled up

[Ramakrishnan Seshadhri]

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 at roche.com> 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
>
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> >Ramakrishnan Seshadhri
> >Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:38 AM
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> >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 at linuxserv /]# cd /var/crash/2008-10-29-10\:28/
> >
> >[root at linuxserv 2008-10-29-10:28]# ls -ltr
> >total 2790788
> >-r-------- 1 root root 3058216960 Oct 29 10:29 *vmcore-incomplete*
> >
> >[root at 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
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