what are /var/adm/crash/crash.0 files for ?

[uspfoms]

I have several huge files in /var/adm/crash/crash.0 directory named
image.1.1.gz, image.1.2.gz etc...

what are these ? can they be safely removed ?
or moved and linked to ????


Thanks

[Pete Randall]

Those are crash dumps that get saved there during system boot. You can safely remove them but you might want to keep the latest.


Pete

[Steven E. Protter]

If your system is giving you trouble, or crashed, you might wish to do crash dump analysis.

Here are instructions(attached)

SEP

[Helen French]

Typically crash files are safe to remove unless you want to do the crash dump analysis. These files get created after a system crash or panic occurs. The data inside these directories will be useful if asked by HP (or your h/w support) to find out the cause of the failure. If you don't think this is much important to you, you can delete it.

You can also backup this directory in a tape and then remove it from the system. This will be useful in future analysis.

[uspfoms]

Thanks

These are old files, removed them
and edited the /etc/rc.config.d/savecrash
file to write these into a larger file sys.
needed the space in /var.....



Thanks all

[Caesar_3]

Hello!

This files are dump of memory when system
crash.
This files could be debuged with Q4 for
understand the problem but in most cases
just removing them and that's all.
So you can safely remove them.

Caesar

[Tim D Fulford]

I'm actually replying so I can have Steven E's Q4 instructions. (go on give him 10 pts)

Yet another spin on the above replies.... tar up /var/adm/crash/ & send it off to HP for analysis before deleting /var/adm/crash/crash.x dirs; raise a case with HP first. HP's experts can run Q4 & tell you what went do-lally on your server.

Regards

Tim