I've been messing around w/ FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE on my new build and ran into a problem two days ago... When booting the machine, it would hang at "Writing crash summary to /var/crash/core.txt.4". So I tried to reboot a couple more times to no avail (just thought it was being funky). Then I thought to myself "maybe /var/crash/ is full", I mean... it has 4 core dumps in it, but I thought it would have yelled at me during boot instead of just hanging there. So I threw in a live cd, and booted with that, no problem. Then I poked around and figured out which slice had /var on it & cleaned out the crash directory.
I have a question about this... Should the crash directory be cleaned out manually? I mean obviously it worked (so far) but is this a good practice? or is there some other way to manage the core dumps?
I have a question about this... Should the crash directory be cleaned out manually? I mean obviously it worked (so far) but is this a good practice? or is there some other way to manage the core dumps?