/root file system is getting filled up

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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