/root file system is getting filled up

[Reber, Simon]

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

>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of 
>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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