/var/preserve : what is the content of this directories?

[Mike_108]

Hi all,
i found that on my system running HP-UX 11.0 the "/var" directory space is getting smaller. and this is because lot of file was created under the "/var/preserve" directory.

so, what is this files for and can i delete all of this file.

one more thing, there is a directory under "/var/crash"
created, (it is "/var/crash/crash.0") this is because the system was crashed last time...so, to clean up the space, can i just delete this "crash.0" directory?

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Mike

Copy to tape the crash dir and get HP to check as to why the system crashed and then delete the crash.0 files.

Also chech the var/adm dir for large files.


Paula

[Christopher Caldwell]

Editor files (files from ex and vi) get saved in /var/preserve for recovery.

If the files are old, they can be safely removed.

[T G Manikandan]

yes the /var/crash dir files should be analysed for the reasons of the system crash.

Copy it to a tape and find and fix the cause of the crash.

/var/preserve dir is used to store saved files those were created due to a system crash or abnormal termination of vi or ex


Thanks

[harry d brown jr]

They are vi save files. You can trash them if you don't need to recover them.

live free or die
harry

[Marco Santerre]

Depending how long ago, and if you actually really care about what happened to your system, you can have that crash analyzed by HP (which I would recommend), so before deleting it, put it to tape and have HP look at it. Then you can delete that whole crash.0 directory.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

The '/var/preserve' directory holds recovery files from aborted 'vi' sessions. Based on modification dates you can remove what you want.

The 'var/crash' directory holds dump information from a system panic that you might want analyzed by HP. IF not, or after analysis, you may delete the files therein.

Regards!

...JRF...

[harry d brown jr]

Sorry, I should specify in the /var/preserve directory you have vi aborted session files.

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harry

[Mike_108]

hi all,

thanks a lot on your advice

one thing by mistake i've put the /var/crash/crash.0
but actually the directory is
'/var/adm/crash/crash.0'

ok...sorry for the mistake.

thanks & regards

Mike