/root file system is getting filled up

[Paul Whitney]

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 at 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 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.
> 
> 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
>