/var/adm/crash

[Jonathan Caplette]

Hi guys,

I was doing some cleaning on my workstation and I saw the space that /var/adm/crash directory take on my disk... I want to clean it up... What I wanna know is, can I do a rm -r of the directory that are in /var/adm/crash, like : rm -r /var/adm/crash/crash.1

or is there a way to remove those directory???

Regards
Jonathan

[Steve Steel · Accepted solution]

Hi

Normally safe to remove since this are core images of the last time the system crashed.

I always advise to backup directory before removing anything and keep tape for 1 week


steve Steel

[Steve Steel]

See

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x54fd5f260cafd4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html


Steve Steel

[melvyn burnard]

You may want to try to tie these crash dumps up with dates and events in your /etc/shutdownlog before progressing.

Unless you wish to have thses crash dumps investighated, simply cd /var/adm/crash and then rm everything there.
Of course, to be safe you could first back them up to tape.....

[Jonathan Caplette]

Thanks Steve!!!

I've made a backup and removed the files...

ciao!

[Christopher T. Pestano]

Jonathan,

Simply delete the files inside /var/adm/crash. Keep in mind that the files were generated after a crash and unless you're sure you don't need any of it for analysis you can just do an rm -r inside the directory.

Hope that helps you decide.

Tope